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A Diesel Hillman Last month, on the principle of "trying anything once," we covered a considerable mileage in an outwardly-normal Hillman Minx saloon, but one which had one of those remarkable Perkins "Four…

THE ULSTER A.C. MONTHLY REVIEW If the " Monthly Review " is anything to go by, the Ulster Automobile Club pays considerable attention to the sporting side of motoring in…

Sir, Permit me to refer to DSJ's October Letter To Readers, wherein he insinuates "Vandalism", with question mark, in relation to TARF II and York Motor Museum. Now I feel…

Last month I published the news that Helical Bar plc intend to build office blocks and a car park to tower over the Brooklands Paddock, Clubhouse and Museum and the…

MOTOR LORRY SPORT. By H. G. G. HERKLOTS. THEY are dirty, they are noisy, they smell vilely, they are no respecters of persons ; all this, and more, I will…

New for Scalextric's slot-racing range is Gerhard Berger's Ferrari F 187, well-modeled and correctly liveried but in 1987 rather than 1988 spec — and as ever it is a pity…

Tom Walkinshaw Racing, which runs the World Sportscar Championship-winning Jaguars, is linking up with another leading British company in 1988, for its first season in American IMSA GT racing. Having…

The Historic Sports Car Club will build on its 40th anniversary season in 2006 with another busy schedule in 2007, although the club will not visit Croft and Croix-en-Ternois in the coming…

Nicholson Moves FORMERLY a successful motorcycle scrambles rider and now an equally competitive circuit driver in his well-known MG-B, registered 286 FAC, "Bill" Nicholson has moved away from partnership and…

The recent announcement of the conversion of Rootes Securities to a public company and of its past year's earnings totalling £1,143,000 focusses attention on its products, of which the Sunbeam-Talbot "90"…

EARLS COURT PRE--VIEW by the Editor QUITE early on the first public-view day of the recent S.B.A.C. Display, when the weather was by no means set-fair, it was announced that…

IN MEMORIAM I We present a selection of memorials erected on the Continent in memory of departed competition drivers. Frenchman Raymond Sommer, who died in a Cooper, and the pre-I914…