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Fiat 1000 Abarth, Zolder, 1966 by Toine Hezemans I'd just finished second in the World Karting Championship; third was a certain Ronnie Peterson. I ordered a Fiat 1000 Abarth TC…

At a Press Conference last year, sponsored by the Edsel Division of the American Ford Motor Company, Mr. Breech, Chairman of the Board, in discussing the future of small cars…

This BRM won the fastest, closest World Championship Grand Prix in history and the third slowest too. It also gave BRM its last win. After 25 years in pieces it…

The Humber Register is organising a rally at Coventry to celebrate the centenary of Humber business and 60th anniversary of the Humber works in Coventry. Open to all pre-1931 Humber…

One of the leading national drivers of the 1970s has died after a short illness, aged 83. The Londoner first raced in the ’50s and later drove for the works…

For those of us who live largely in the past it is pleasing when interesting facets from years long ago turn up. Thus I drove to a well known town…

John Barnard tells us in this issue that he “probably couldn’t operate in today’s Formula 1”. The days of the maverick visionaries such as Barnard, Gordon Murray and Gérard Ducarouge…

A Day at the Castrol Laboratories Oil is oil no matter from whose hole in the ground it gushes —at least, so think the majority of people whose closest connection…

Sir, I have followed with considerable interest —and amusement—the correspondence of late concerning collectors' model vehicles. As I originated this type of model in the Sixties and have watched the…

Renault’s sacking of Nelson Piquet means that the Brazilian follows Sébastien Bourdais in being dropped for performance reasons in the middle of his second season. In the past a similar…

Fedden fiasco The classic Roy Fedden Trophy Trial of the Bristol MC and LCC went astray this year. The organisers decided to toughen-up the event by discarding the former route in favour of…

RAC Rally Notes Sir, With reference to the 1959 Liege-Rome-Liege Rally, your contributor seems to have been economical with the truth in order to make his point. Four, not three,…