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It may not be immediately obvious what this Cooper-Maserati T86 is doing on these pages, other than going rather fast and looking gorgeous. Look at its race record and while…

"Tiger, Alpine, Rapier — Sporting Cars from the Rootes Group" by Richard Langworth. 175 pp., 10" x 7 1/4" (Osprey Publishing Co. Ltd., 12-14, Long Acre, London, WC2E 9LP. £9.95)…

A car for the sporting bachelor Rootes' Latest Development of the Rapier Reaches High Speeds with Acceleration in Keeping. Girling Disc Brakes on the Front Wheels. For many years the Rootes…

MOTORING SPORTSMEN. Captain T. C. Douglas. By THE EDITOR. CAPTAIN JOHN CHARLES DOUGLAS, who has figured prominently at Brooklands since the war, is one of those amateur drivers of whom…

It has been said that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon-day sun. The sun shone for the VSCC Winter Driving Test Meeting at Enstone aerodrome near…

Cooper And Porsche Share The Honours Bruxelles, May 10th. THE Royal Automobile Club of Belgium, together with the daily sporting paper Les Sports, brought a new lease of life to…

The cars of the STD combine have been fully documented, as have the Roesch Talbots and the Rootes Group Sunbeam Talbots, Alpines and Rapiers, except for the 1930s French Talbots.…

Serious competition work with the Fulvia coupés, producing second place in the Monte Carlo Rally and third in the Flowers already this season, plus the team prizes, has encouraged Lancia…

fateA,a HIGH SPEEDS Sir, I read with interest a letter from " Member—A.R.D.C.," Melbourne, Ans., published in your June issue, in which he doubts a Mr. Thompson being able to…

The Editor Looks Back on the Cars he Drove in 1963 "The practice of summing up the year's activities in films, plays, books, and public affairs has become so much…

The first sight which greeted competitors on leaving the Bridge Hotel, Buttermere, on the morning of the trial on November 5 W. Adrian Liddell's Vauxhall 30/98 being exercised up and…

Courtsey of the private enterprise company Rare Imports we can bring you the class confrontation amongst Japanese micro sports cars this month; Honda Beat versus Suzuki Cappuccino. In fact we…