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BRITISH SUCCESSES IN THE ALPINE TRIAL TALBOTS AND TRIUMPHS WIN ALPINE CUPS FOR TEAM PERFORMANCES. GLACIER CUPS WON BY TRIUMPH, SINGER, FRAZER NASH, ASTON MARTIN, STANDARD AVON, M.G., AND RAILTON…

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Lotus technical director Mike Gascoyne insists that the new team is on schedule with its preparations for 2010, despite the late confirmation of its Formula 1 entry by the FIA.…

THIS is an affair which belongs to the era of London omnibuses running on "solids ' and sliding on the woodblocks at Hyde Park Corner, of quaint taxis and (they…

There is a rule that says that no convertible can be as good as the coupe upon which it is based. And for obvious reasons too: chop the top off…

FLAME& FORTUNE ERIC THOMPSON'S RACING HAD TO PLAY SECOND FIDDLE TO A DEMANDINGJOB IN THE CITY, BUT HE PACKED A LOT INTO HIS ALL-TOO-RARE OUTINGS — ESCPECIALLY IN THE GOOD…

The VW Beetle still roams the world's roads and Foulis have come up with a 325-page book (10 3/4" x 8") by Lindsay Porter about how to purchase and maintain…

The Bean CC informs us that its Daffodil Run, from Knowle Hill, near Maidenhead, to Brighton, will be held on April 20th, not April 30th as published in V-E-V Miscellany last…

The Brooklands Society held another of its annual reunions at the old Surrey Motor Course on June 30th, which attracted the usual large crowds, their cars occupying deep rows along much of the…

Odd Spots R. G. J. Nash is now with Simmonds Accessories Ltd., and has forsaken his Ford V8 for an Austin Ten. Hatcher, who was his mechanic about the time…

Not a driver this month, but a famous marque involved in a long-forgotten excursion into a completely foreign field of endeavour – Jaguar in NASCAR If Toyota, as expected, wins…

THE ALLARD DRAGSTER There is no more appropriate driver than Sydney Allard when it comes to dragsters, for Allard always has loved 'em big and fierce. His, the first British…