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Ford will be the featured marque at the fifth RaceRetro, the International Historic Motorsport Show at Stoneleigh Park from March 14-16, 2008. A display of Ford rally cars from the…

Richard Walter Rickard Twelvetrees, who was Editor of Motor Sport in the 1920s, died in Hastings aged ninety-six just before Christmas. An appreciation will appear next month. —W.B.

The Bugatti OC has its enjoyable Classic Prescott hill climb on June 5/6, and the VSCC goes there for its notable annual event on August 7/8, practice first, timed action…

If we’re still in recession, it appears no one’s told the UK’s car makers who produced 120,000 cars in July alone, an increase of 22 per cent over the same…

The 1961 Monaco Grand Prix was a classic, but none of the racers pictured nee could get the better of 'Golden Boy' Moss ROBIN POWELL Isle of Wight man Mr…

Sir, Amongst the high-ranking achievements of VWs and Mini Minors, I should like to praise the mechanical reliability of the now deleted Vauxhall Wyvern. My father purchased one of these…

Rare encounter — a roamer with Duesenberg engine

A Correction. IN an article 'appearing on page 171 of this issue, referenceis made to the late Mr. Henry Sturmey which implies that he was Editor of The Autocar until…

ROUND THE CLUBS—continued. SOUTHPORT MOTOR CLUB. 1925 PROGRAMME OF EVENTS. May 31.1 Two-day Holiday Run to Hardkuott and Wrynose June r .1 Passes. July 18. Race Meeting. 22. Evening Event…

NEEDLES " LYING " VERTICALLY Sir, May I also endorse the valuable suggestion of R. A. Macdermid which is mentioned in your last issue to the effect that all needles…

Overnight success for Mitsubishi is the result of years of experience, says David Williams Andrew Cowan and Phil Short, the men who run RaIliart Europe, are cautious, sober-sided characters, no…

Eddie Cheever kept it together in the gloom and rain to win the Silverstone GPM race Even the weather was as it so often used to be, Silverstone awakening on…