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1934 RACING CARS 4.-THE M.G. MAGNETTE, K.3. THE ban on road-racing in Great Britain has prevented the general public from taking the interest in motor-racing which is found in Continental…

Sir, want to take this opportunity of thanking you for all the trouble you have gone to on my behalf and the prompt Manner in which you attended to my…

This year it was the turn of sports cars to use the fast sea-front circuit at Bari, way down in the south of Italy on the Adriatic coast, the first…

With an old car, negligible can-am form but plenty of nous,John Cannon was the only man equipped to cope with a rain-swept Laguna Seca in 1968. Gordon Cruickshank explains When…

GOOD SERVICE I notice-that from time to time you publish refreshing examples of good service from garages. May I add one ? I had a puncture in a tubeless tvre…

Sir, After reading about the new Jaguar E-type, I tried to summarise my feelings, but the best phrase that I could come up with was "worshipful despair" – a most uncommon…

LEICESTERSHIRE C.C. TRIAL (Sept. 5th) The Bowmaker Trophy Trial was run on September 5th, 25 cars leaving Leicester at 11 p.m. with Llandudno as their goal. The route consisted mainly…

Juggling writers and features can be a black art, so we're smug that asking Paul Fearnley to tell the story of Segrave's historic 1923 French GP victory coincided with his…

The Vintage Sports Car Club has announced its 1991 fixture list. An impressive one, it contains 32 events, of which eleven are open to non-members as paying spectators. These latter…

Continenta. Notez and. News Rift/In the Lute The trouble between France and Italy in the political sphere, is bringing on a first-class crisis in motor-racing. It came to a head…

A Doctor's Cars Sir, Recently my mother, aged 88, died and I had occasion to sort through numerous old papers. Amongst these I found an account of a motor tour…

— A very good race            Zandvoort, August 31st  AFTER the FOCA bosses had managed to raise the price of their "Circus" this year, the promoters of…