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Three-litre Alfa Romeo 164s are being used in a Celebrity Challenge organised by Bernie Ecclestone to support eight European Grands Prix. Unlike other championships, it will be the cars themselves…

An advertiser's query in last month's issue as to whether or not his 1959 Morris Minor 1000, with 6,700 miles on its odometer from new, was the lowest mileage example…

Argument over F1's current tyre policy is dominating this season. We ask Pirelli for its take on balancing endurance with spectacle writer Ed Foster Dietrich Mateschitz, the owner of Red…

THE 14/45 ROVER ON BWLCH-Y-GROES. An interesting trial of the 14-45 h.p. Rover Saloon has been made under the observation of the Royal Automobile Club and consisted of 50 consecutive…

Plus fours Sir, In his report of the Swedish Rally, GP asked who wants four-wheel drive. Well, I do. Having had experience of two 4wd Ford Sierras and, currently, a…

"Seven Year Twitch," by Marcus Chambers. 225 pp. 8¾ in. x 5 5/8 in. (G. T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., 1-5, Portpool Lane, Holborn, London, E.C.1 30s.) This book, in which Marcus Chambers…

The Chronique des Pasquier, by Georges Duhamel, is a serial novel in ten volumes, and as it is possible that some of my readers may prefer to take their French literature in…

Sir, Further to WB's piece Clearing Giveen in September's issue, the ERA Club published an extract from a proposed follow-up to Split Seconds, in which Raymond Mays refers again to…

A correspondent in South Africa, who not only lived through the Augustan Age of motoring but also actually remembers what happened during it, unfolded to me not long ago a fascinating…

How Jack Sears and the big Ford Galaxie changed the shape of British tin-top racing back in 1963 Touring car racing, especially since the 1980s, has left me absolutely stone…

It is no secret that the Goodwood Moving Motor Show did not go according to plan. Lord March’s latest audacious effort to widen further still the appeal of the Festival…

McLaren's performance in Brazil, as had been predicted, was a huge disappointment. But only to the rest of the pit lane. Having been the butt, if you'll pardon the pun,…