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The VSCC's Silverstone Meeting on June 13, dedicated to the memory of Mike Hawthorn, went very much to plan and pattern. The racing opened with the Bill Phillips six-lap scratch…

Durirg February George Monkhouse gave a film show to members of the Harrow Car Club, in the well-appointed cinema at Kodak Hall. He showed some excellent slides of photographs of…

HERE AND THERE. A Little 'Un "Down Under." One of the most strenuous events in Australia is the 1,000 mile Six Days Trial organised by the New South Wales M.C.C.…

BMW M3 Fast and beautiful, BMW's M3 is one of the most desirable cars on the road. At £23,550 it is also expensive, a shade more than the 530, which…

Anyone passing the Phoenix Hotel at Hartley Wintney in Hampshire on the evening of the first Thursday last month should have realised that the V.S.C.C. was in possession, because there…

As stated last month, we have received a surprisingly large number of letters enthusing over the Triumph TR, "the last real sports car". Some 18 years ago, having been unable…

After a dismally short production run of only 27 months in both 1,340-c.c. and 5,498-c.c. form the Classic has been quietly dropped by Ford and replaced by the Corsair. This…

Last season saw the Yeoman-Credit Racing Team change their colours from the rather sickly green to the bright leaf-green and red livery, and next season the identity of the team…

Amidst all the euphoria of Mansell and Senna and their transatlantic crossings, Rick Ravon Mears stepped from the spotlight last December. As ever, when he announced his intention to retire…

Sir, John Perrett's allegation (Motor Sport, March 1987) that the people who buy foreign goods are the cause of Britain's industrial decline is ludicrous! People do not buy foreign goods to…

RACE HELD DESPITE CANCELLATION. MERCEDES-BENZ GREAT VICTORY. BUGATTI FINDS ITS FORM, BUT ALFA-ROMEOS ARE OUTCLASSED. THE political situation has been so disturbing lately that it was little wonder that the…

Anthony Heal recalls Coatalen's experiments of 1910-11, which led to the evolution of the successful road-racing Sunbeams of the post-1918 era. In 1909 Louis Coatalen joined the Sunbeam Moter Co.…