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Veteran to classic

Book of the Month Vauxhall 30-98, by Nic Portway, New Wensum Publishing, Stowmarket, £118. Although books innumerable have been written about almost every make of car, the good, the bad…

January 1996 Issue

By Bill Boddy

Re-Styled Sprite

Mr. Harriman, Chairman of the great British Motor Corporation, has said that sports cars are the mainstay of B.M.C.'s exports, so we were interested to try the latest Austin Healey Sprite,…

January 1962 Issue

By Bill Boddy

Editorial, January 2002

A dozen of Stirling's drives were nominated. Yet no-one thought to mention his stunning performance at Aintree in 1957 — a typical recovery from early dramas — that opened the…

January 2002 Issue

Vintage Postbag, February 1970

"The Old Man" Sir, In 1933 there were a couple of World War I aero-engines in an alcove under the engine test bay at the North Works. Longbridge, of the…

February 1970 Issue

ROSE POINTS

• * * * ROSE POINTS SIR, Keith Howard's Technofile article on Rose joints credits German aircraft engineers for invention of this device. We can assume the Messerschmitt was Gilles…

December 1999 Issue

Early Motor Cycling and the Result. - Left

Early Motor Cycling and the Result.

Early Motor Cycling and the Result. By F. W. BARNES, M.I.A.E. Mr. F. W. Barnes, who is well-known to all Brooklands habituees, tells some of his early experiences in the…

December 1925 Issue

THE 10,000 KILOMETRES TRIAL.

THE 10,000 KILOMETRES TRIAL. IT is a matter of considerable disappointment that the great 10,000 Kilometre Trial organised by the Automobile Club of Germany should be practically ignored by the…

June 1931 Issue

Porsche Cayman S

Muscle and fine manners from Stuttgart Factfile Price: £48,783 Engine: 3.4 litres, six cylinders Power: 325bhp @7400rpm Torque: 273lb ft @4500-5800rpm Transmission: six-speed manual, rear-wheel drive ---------------- 0-62mph: 5.0sec Top…

July 2013 Issue

By Andrew Frankel

Turbo Topics

Turbo Topics TURBOCHARGIN( on the increase, no doubt about that. An interesting letter came in from a reader in Seattle the other day, in which he wondered whether vacuum-servo braking…

December 1980 Issue

Reviews, May 1995

Brooklands – A Pictorial History, by G N Georgano. Dalton Watson Fine Books, Loughborough. £12.99 Brooklands Track continues to exert so much interest and fascintion that any book about it…

May 1995 Issue

LETTERS FROM READERS-continued, January 1942

Sir, May I congratulate J. Heywood Statham on his article ? I found it such a change to read of someone claiming 74 m.p.h. after tuning instead of 96 m.p.h.…

January 1942 Issue