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The Vintage Car In spite of the fact that this is nearly A.D. 1950, letters still arrive in numbers at the Motor Sport offices extolling vintage cars. The other day we fell to…

The VSCC held another genuine speed-trial meeting at Colerne aerodrome on April 25. Open only to members, it was a happy social occasion as well as a means of comparing…

THAT 1954 FORMULA Sir, I am writing to tell you about a meeting the constructors of racing ears had with Earl Howe and Colonel Barnes at the R.A.C. on Wednesday,…

To most people motor-car windscreens are of two types. one simple and cheap and the other complex and expensive. The former is the "Standard" toughened variety lifted on Most production…

THE BRIGHTON ROAD-CIRCUIT SCHEME AFTER, an interval of eight years, the scheme to construct a road-racing circuit on the South Downs, near Brighton, has been revived. It will be remembered…

Alain Prost (above, drove a commanding race at Imola to score his second victory in a 1984 World Championship qualifying round, his McLaren MP4/2 never being headed from the start…

A new sound has been born. It hails not from Liverpool nor from any other tin-pan-alley source, for this sound has a distinctly motoring note and comes from Crypton, the…

Charles March, the Earl of March and Kinrara, has been presented with the Motorsport Industry Association’s award for ‘the Most Outstanding Contribution’ to the motor sport industry. Lord March is…

The announcement that the VSCC hopes to have an Auto Union actually racing at its Richard Seaman Trophies Meeting at that so appropriate circuit Donington Park, is exciting news which…

www.charade.fr/eng/accueil New to the major events calendar is a late July meeting at the Charade circuit in central France. Better known as Clermont-Ferrand, the original, and longer, circuit was occasionally…

Sir, I am interested in your illustration of the Daimler with the beer-bottle body, as I was employed, in a very minor capacity, in the building of the first job…

After several fruitless attempts to conquer the World Sports Car Championship, Alfa Romeo prospered with a cocktail of Italian flair and German methodology It arrives secreted within what can only…