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THE BRISTOL 405 SALOON Engine : Six cylinders, 66 by 96 nun. (1,971 c.c.). Crosspush-rod inclined o.h. valves. 8.5 to 1 compression-ratio; 105 b.h.p. at 5,000 r.p.m. Gear ratios :…

There are two ways to break into saloon or GT racing. One is to buy the best machine currently available in hope that it will not be superseded too quickly,…

rooklands Easter Meeting HOLIDAY FIXTURE RUN IN THE RAIN iT is a good thing that all meetings are not run in weather like that of Easter Monday. Apart, however, from…

Sir, One of my clients as shown me an article what you wrote about me and my tyres being no good for racing cars like the RAC said, which I…

A reader has kindly drawn my attention to an interesting reference in "The General Strike" by Christopher Farman (Panther Books, 1934) to how Major Segrave was allocated to meet the…

He's won Le Mans, Daytona and Sebring and rues the passing of Group C. Andy Wallace tells Rich Heseltine why 800bhp is best “The problem with modern sportscar racing", muses…

The owner of the 8-litre Bentley looks back down 45 motoring years IT is a safe bet that at the time Hitler launched the greatest gamble ever few sports car…

In pre-WW1 days works Rolls-Royces performed well in some important competitions - in the 1914 Alpine Trials , winning a Spanish GP and in 1911 a single-seater officially exceeding 101mph.…

Not exactly forgotten perhaps — certainly not by me, because my first (£5) car was an ABC, even if, with its oil-pump inoperative, it only lasted three days before a…

It's never wise to answer back to a French policeman even if he's made a 'gauche' mistake A friend has just returned from a trip to his French holiday house,…

Strangulation? The older drivers used the term strangulation to imply the richening of the mixture in order to get an engine started from cold. But in the present context it…

To commemorate the 1928/1929 Gipsy Moth Reliability Tour, when a Gipsy I engine was flown 51,000 miles in DH Moth G-EBTD with only routine servicing, after which replacement parts cost…