Articles from the archive

Sir, I read with interest Mr. Thorne's letter in April's Motor Sport. I am pleased to say that my car proudly proclaims "Daimler, England" on its front. This car, a…

Better Books Limited Booksellers • MOTOR RACING CHRISTMAS CARDS, by Roy Nock°Ids. A series of six Christmas Cards in black and white from paintings by Roy Nockolds. Mounted on Art…

Autogyro Sir, The correspondence on gyroplanes (Autogyro was a trade name belonging to the Cierva Autogiro Company Ltd.) brought back memories. About 1963 I found one under a pile of…

Sometimes patience and diplomacy are the keys to clinching the deal You search for an AC to buy - and then three come along at once. That's what faced AC…

Sir, I have no axe to grind with Volvo. Or with estate cars. Or with diesel engines. Or with turbos. But does a combination of these four factors have any…

Unsold Peugeot Pleasure In Britain, the Peugeot 309 GTI is the overlooked big brother of the chic 205 equivalent. Whereas approximately 10,000 205 GTIs are sold a year (of which…

Taking down from the shelves my bound volumes of Motor Sport to indulge in some research, my eyes strayed from the task had embarked on to more interesting items encountered…

Sir, The installation of a Rover V8 engine in a Triumph Stag featured in August's Motor Sport represents a complete disregard for the excellent Triumph V8 engine. The Triumph V8…

No makes of cars are mentioned in "A Heroine In Her Time — A Life of Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan 1879-1967” by Molly Izard (Macmillan, 1969) but there are interesting new aspects of…

This month we have rare behind-the-scenes footage from McLaren circa 1978, and Tasman Series action from Warwick Farm in the late ’60s David Munro Before starting college, David spent a…

Under normal circumstances, most models have a reasonable lifespan, but when things go wrong some are killed off before their time. Giles Chapman remembers the cars that died... When you…

Sir If Bob Burrell's Connaught A6 is fitted with a Lea Francis engine, it is only the second "A" series Connaught to be so equipped, although it began life with…