Articles from the archive

The annual Silverstone Historic Festival had a fresh look and feel this year, with a new date and a revised race programme that brought more recent machinery to the weekend.…

"Royal Daimlers" by Brian E. Smith. 455 pp. 9 1/2 in. X 7in. (Transport Bookman Publications Ltd., Syon Pork, Brentford, Middlesex. £10.00.) This is an important addition to one-make histories…

Dull entry—tense finish Daytona Beach, January 31st, 1971. The Daytona 24-Hour race has, for many years, been the season's opener for the Manufacturers' Championship but this year it became the…

Character Cars of Wimbledon recently put on a clever demonstration of the fact that used cars, even if twenty years old, can be both reliable and reasonably speedy. They took…

Having described how i was fortunate enough to be given a 1914 Alfonso Hispano-Suiza — fortunate because these were exceedingly good sporting cars — I have been asked what I…

Hailed as the first post-war road race circuit, this army facility offered highspeed spectacle - in a high risk pakage. Gordon Cruickshank reports for duty photography by Richard Newton Perhaps…

Rodney Walkerley has written a motor-racing book primarily for the younger enthusiast—"Come Motor Racing With Me," 208 pp., 71/2 in x 5 in (Frederick Muller Ltd., 110 Fleet Street, London, EC4, 10s 6d.), in the "Junior…

Sir, There are some touchy folk about when it comes to you writing about their vintage cars/aircraft/wives/husbands. You have my sympathy. Maidenhead. – W. H. Hobbs.

In praise of the Scimitar Sir, I've had an awful lot of cars, From '46 To '70, Astons, Porsches and the rest, It must be over twenty. But now I've…

Sir, I have just read your road-test of the Lotus Elan and having owned and driven one for just under a year and 11,000 miles, I would like to say…

5: Single-seater club racing No matter how popular saloon car racing becomes, the added excitement of single-seaters will always ensure the survival of one or more formulae at club level. In…