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For six days, so the story goes, he plonked himself on the sofa in the reception area at the Cleveland Graphite Bronze Company, Cleveland, Ohio. Guy Anthony Vandervell was a…

...and on and on. Not much can match Frankfurt Intentionally or otherwise, within most motor shows lurks a theme that journalists can pluck from the hundreds of new cars and…

An irresistible opportunity to take a pedigree Mercedes to the Goodwood hill’s summit Late on Sunday afternoon at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, I was offered a drive in one…

The Austin Seven is one of the world's great motor cars; some people go so far as to say the greatest. It was in production as an exceedingly successful economy…

We do not want to labour the seat-belts compulsion thing, but in view of the letter from Mr. Harold E. Parkin in the November 1982 issue and another last month…

Forty years after he competed in the last 1-litre Formula 3 race at Monaco, 72-year-old Frenchman René Liggonet will be on the grid for the 2010 race in the same…

Sir, I recently purchased a Stanguellini Formula Junior (chassis 00132). This was originally owned by Raffaele Cammorata, who drove it to the 1959 Italian National Formula Junior Championship. The car…

I wonder whether the Fiat Register is aware of an interesting reference to "a small Fiat motor car" in "The Light of Common Day," by Diana Cooper (Rupert Bart-Davis, 1959)?…

Through the final half-dozen NASCAR Sprint Cup races of 2008, Jimmie Johnson’s biggest challengers were the Roush Fenway Fords driven by Carl Edwards (above) and Greg Biffle. Jack Roush’s operation…

The most remarkable feature of the month, and probably of the whole season, has been the sudden rise to supremacy of a British racing car in the one and a…

CONTROLLING SUSPENSION THE laminated spring, which is still the standard method of suspension on most motor vehicles, has a number of advantages, but is incapable of dealing satisfactorily with all…

Safety First-In Manufacturing. FROM the view-point of safety there are no more vital parts of a car than the steering arm and the stub axles. If a tyre bursts, if…