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Oddities A friend of ours spent some time recently thinking up some motoring oddities, some of which are certainly pretty staggering. He recalled a recent model by a well-known manufacturer…

Louis Vuitton Concours The Hurlingham Club was the venue for the 2nd Louis Vuitton Concours d'Elegance in which 46 cars participated. Seven class winners were selected with the "Best of…

Sir, I am always interested to read about this car. Jenks bought the original engine from Henry Kyle in Ireland during the 1960s, from the Bobbie Baird-modified Emeryson-Duesenberg chassis (see…

by Anthony Pritchard. Aston Publications, £21.95. Roy Salvadori writes the foreword to Anthony Pritchard's latest exercise. From the DB1 all the way to the AMR1 Group C project axed by…

Run off at the BRDC Spring Bank Holiday Silverstone Meeting, this attracted an interesting field of pre-war cars. It was a handicap 5-lap race over the Club circuit, won by…

SPORTING CARS ON TEST: The 22-90 Super-Sports Alfa-Romeo. By RICHARD TWEINETREES. THE Alfa-Romeo car came into prominence in this country largely as the result of the remarkable successes it achieved…

With the tyre manufacturers designing and making wider tread tyres from one race to the next, all in the interests of greater traction and greater cornering power, other problems follow…

Bucklers list some special parts of great appeal to enthusiasts anxious to improve their Fords. The Buckler multi-tubular chassis frame is available to take either a Ford Eight transmission (7…

[Peter J. Robertson-Rodger has just purchased another Frazer-Nash and here explains why he finds these cars – which share with the old-school Bentleys the distinction of being in perhaps greater…

Racing returns to Goodwood this month. Andrew Frankel, in the last of this series of track tests, visits the legendary West Sussex circuit and looks back to the future Photography…

Sir, I would like you to publish an invitation to anyone in the district to call round at the given address any time. Anyone who is interested in motoring sport…

Track tests It seems incredible now, but Spa temporarily lost the Belgian Grand Prix to this rather less inspired effort. David Malsher searches in the gloom for some redeeming features…