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Kieft Racing Cars — The Brigend Story By Peter Tutthill No ISBN Published by Peter Tutthill (Tel: 01208 812358)At Goodwood on Whit Monday 1951, a Kieft rocketed around the outside…

Mitsubishi Motors is one of those car manufacturers who have a low key profile in this country, no doubt handicapped by the voluntary import quota, but who, undaunted, keep coming…

* * A MATTER OF NOMENCLATURE Sir, Boddy says that the Morris Minor i000 will have to be renamed following the fitting of a larger engine. Not so. For some…

Although not anything like as elaborate as the VSCC's Measham night rally, that run by the Morgan 3-Wheeler Club is supported every bit as enthusiastically. The last one had 16…

He signed for one team but has ended up driving for another. Yet the Brawn name switch was no great surprise to Nico Rosberg, who had his fingers crossed about…

Bad weather cleared at Snetterton in time not to spoil the West Essex C.C. racing on Whit Saturday, which consisted of nine short, snappy events. The 10-lap Formula III race…

by A Gordon Wilson. 173 pp. 9" x 51/2". (Gerald Duckworth & Co, The Old Piano Factory, 43 Gloucester Crescent, London NW1 7DL. £9.95) Written by a son of the…

A section devoted to old-car matters Museums in London Syon House at Brentford, not all that far from the Chiswick Flyover of the M4, is the residence of the Duke…

On the afternoon of April 23rd 1962, the professional motor racing career of Stirling Moss ended against an earth bank on the approach to St Mary’s Corner at Goodwood. The…

John Watson 1982 In a crazy mixed-up year, one man burst from deep within the josteling pack to make a bid for the title. Eventually, however, his problems in qualifying…

In 1926, fifty years ago, the Honourable Victor Bruce became the first British driver to win the Monte Carlo Rally, using a British AC car to do so. So it…

Miniatures News TWO MODEL pre-war cars — a 1929 Bentley and a 1933 Alfa Romeo — will soon be able to relive past glories on Scalextric circuits. Following continued requests…