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Awards in the STD National Rally, reported last month. were : Rootes Age/Distance Award: T Grundy (9131 Sunbeam), 490 miles, runner-up, P Lester (1905 Sunbeam), 200 miles.

This venture was commenced in 1910 by Mr LF de Peyrecave, just as the Cyclecar Craze, the so-called "new motoring", was preparing to take off. Duos were originally supplied by…

Last month in the first half of our trip around the tuning shops we spent considerable space discussing the tuning divisions of two major manufacturers B.M.C. and Ford. But readers…

THE LESSONS OF LE MANS Class Victories by Allard, Aston-Martin, and Jowett Jupiter Frazer-Nash EMANS this year was a striking sm.cuss for British ears and our industry as a whole,…

Sir, Your mention (August, 1974) of the Openshaw Fiat puzzles me frankly, and 1 very much wonder if it was a "real" racing car (Fiat themselves looked upon the S61…

Isle of Man-based Jaguar collector Allen Lloyd won two of the four legs of the Manx Motor Racing Club's ninth Manx Classic motorsport event last month, with record-breaking performances in…

Sir, I am delighted that you made Stirling Moss 'Best All-rounder' — but you don't know the half of it! In 1974, the late Henry Liddon and I organised the…

The picture at the top of this page shows pre-war German Grand Prix Mercedes-Benz cars being driven along the Charlottenburgh Strasse, with the Brandenburger Gate in the background, for the…

A 40-H.P. really light aeroplane of outstanding design and performance. During the past half-dozen years the trend of light aeroplane design has progressed along two distinct lines. In England the…

Sir, Using Tele-Radiesthesia, a form of telepathy by which information otherwise inaccessible may sometimes be obtained, I obtained the following figures for octane rating and "goodness" rating, which I presume…

Sir, While reading the January 2001 issue, I came upon a photo on page 32 that looked very familiar to me. I have enclosed a print of Rene Amoux's blazing…

he Grand Prix of Geneva, 7 fri. P. H. WIN BY LEROUX AND HIS 13UGATTI. WHILE Achille Varzi was defending the Bugatti colours in Rome, Louis Chiron, the other crack…