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Sir, Just read Nigel Roebuck's editorial about Silverstone and have to say how much I agreed with it. I was a cancelled Saturday attendee having spent £146 on tickets for…

Cream soup and toasts at Lyons Corner House When the victorious Bentley team sat down to their celebratory dinner after winning Le Mans in 1928, they must have had one…

Sir, My 1927 twin-cylinder Jowett has often suspected that you had a soft spot for both its genus and its species, and now feels very honoured to have its picture…

 The Show . . . Yes, they are still talking of Earl's Court, and in an unbiased wander round we have gleaned some assorted impressions for you. We thought of…

By an old friend Norman A. Smith I was almost resigned to spending the remainder of the "duration" in Egypt, and had begun to tackle the problem of conversing with…

The Vintage Sports Car Club scored again at its Prescott hill-climb. In spite of running nearly 200 entries for the first time, with perhaps the biggest-ever spectator attendance, the meeting…

In just eight years, the Goodwood festival of Speed has become the biggest historic motorsport event in the world. The annual festival on the drive of Goodwood House in Sussex…

An "Alfonso" in Holland. APASSING remark in the course of a recent " Sideslip " on the subject of M. Marc Birkigt and prewar Hispano-Suizas has brought me a letter…

Pastures new! When Alan Docking's team decided to compete in the British Touring Car Championship in 1987 it set itself a challenge. The ubiquitous Ford Sierra Cosworth and Rover Vitesse…

LIGIER GITANES BLONDES After months of speculation Flavio Briatore finally succeeded in taking control of Ligier. and his press conference to announce that fact in Monaco was a triumph of…

Too sensible? For a company whose average customer is around 55 years old, Honda has an extraordinarily progressive model range. Its smallest mainstream car, the Civic, does nor even include…

Many people regard the Motor Shows of the Autumn season as so many images of Earls Court. Perhaps this is partially true, but it would be quite wrong to assume…