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orareA,a OF FRENCH VINTAGE Sir, As an owner for five years of a 1926 DISS Delage, I was interested to see your article on old Delages in the May issue.…

Rallyworld edited by Peter Foubister. 160pp. 121/2 x 91/4. (Tudor Publications, 97-99 Botanic Avenue, Belfast BT7 1JN. £11.95). Annuals quite often leave us cold. It's an effort to trundle through…

THE B.R.D.C. 500/ [Motor Sport Photograph Widengren's O.M. leaving a tra:1 of smoke after breaking a piston. He is seen following two Rileys and a Talbot. IN three short years…

A GUIDE TO 1936 HIGH PERFORMANCE CARS THIS LIST OF SPECIFICATIONS AND DATA HAS BEEN COMPILED TO ASSIST THE PROSPECTIVE PURCHASER OF A FAST CAR IN THE DIFFICULT MATTER OF…

Very Severe Conditions. Lea-Francis and Allard Successes The Vintage S.C.C. Marlow Trial of February 3rd was a very pleasant and well-conducted event, but continual rain had rendered the hills rather…

Porsche To the motor-racing enthusiast it is always very satisfying when a manufacturer brings out a new production model that has been directly derived from racing experience. To see a…

ROAD RACING IN MINIATURE. RIGHT in the midst of that rather noisy amusement park in the Haymarket, is a model road racing circuit that is causing something of a sensation.…

The vicious economic climate is hurting MotoGP just like it is hurting Formula 1. The world’s premier bike racing series has already lost one of its lower-ranking teams to corporate…

When Talbot clinched the WRC manufacturers' title in 1981 with Toivonen and Guy Fréquelin in Sunbeam Lotuses, it provided the impetus for the parent company in France to design, build…

ON the Sunday when America was celebrating the safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts, a tremendous technological achievement, the World Cup Rally started from Wembley. Within a few miles…

Follow in the tyre grooves of prost and muller... for a price The Andros Trophy may be familiar to many, but this French national ice racing series doesn’t always get…

Sir, Are there any of your readers who would like to correspond with someone who is " stink box mad " ? If there is, let him drop me a…