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Toyota Celica Supra OVER the past few years Japanese cars with a sporting flavour have improved quite dramatically, combining their already established reputations for providing a high level of basic…

Sir, I was fascinated and delighted to read your article on Lewin Spittle's "Historic MG Midget". As a regular reader, I know your passion for accuracy, so I thought I…

A Fangio Party

"Lunardi", by Leslie Gardner. 191 pp. 8 3/4 in by 5 1/2 in. (Airlife Publishing Ltd, 7 St. John's Hill, Shrewsbury, Salop. £9.95) This is the story of the pioneer…

Last month it was Sunbeams at Silverstone. This time it's A7s at Beaulieu. If I were on one of the weekly motor papers I might report something like this: "The…

Collector’s Edition Filmed in 1968, this follows Chapman through that dramatic season. Perhaps because fame is still new, he talks frankly, laughing every time the interviewer calls him a millionaire:…

(July 11th) It was nice to be back among the Coatalen Sunbeams, Roesch Talbots and the Darracqs, at Wolverhampton, where Register members meet ex-employees of the old Sunbeam Company, take…

GIäseI shows them who's Bosch -- RA Thoroughbred Grand Prix Only when his engine cut out at the Lausitzring did Christian Gläsel fail to win during a crushing season in…

SALMSON saimson Ho) two-scater, starter, dynamo, rev.-counter, siwedorneter, all in working order. Four 110Nk yr 1 battery, safety screen. Strinium, 16, Thorillicld Court , Holders Hill Road, N .W.7.

Brief Encounter with the 760-c.c. REAR-ENGINED RENAULT SALOON Outstanding Comfort by any Standards. Splendid Controllability. Seating for Four Grown-ups. Very Brisk Performance and Upwards of 45 m.p.g. from an Ingenious…

CARS I HAVE OWNED [G. Anthony Phelps, A.T.A. Pilot, tells of his motoring education.—Ed.] FROM previous contributions to this series I gather that practically every MOTOR SPORT reader was bred…

B.O.C. PRESCOTT NATIONAL SPEED HILL CLIMB (Sept. 13th) EXCEEDINGLY pleasant in the warm sunshine, Prescott on this occasion saw Boshier-Jones (Cooper 1,100) get within 0.18 sec. of his former course-record…