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By David Sutton ISBN 0954286014 Published by Live Wire Books, £18.00 It's sobering to see how rapidly a successful firm can crash. David Sutton was, through the Seventies and Eighties,…

SIXTEEN CYLINDERS AND EIGHT MILES A GALLON You may think that elephants are found in Africa and India but those dealt with in this series have come from Coventry, Milan,…

Pat Moss and Ann Wisdom We have praised Pat Moss and Ann Wisdom before but their recent epic drive in the Liége-Rome-Liége Rally placed them not only in the forefront…

Group C car in transition The sportscar which became a van has been returned to its first role and will race in 2007 Although its planned return was thwarted by…

Sir, The theme of June's Matters of moment (is individuality fading for the ordinary car buyer?) must be answered with a loud "Yes". Today's motor cars follow a firmly established…

Peugeot: Three 905 bis models, V10 engines, 3.5 litres. Drivers include Derek Warwick, Yannick Dalmas, Philippe Alliot, Mauro Baldi, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Mark Blundell, Eric van de Poele, Alain Ferte and…

En route to entering Grand Prix racing as a constructor in 1976, French Formula One privateer of the mid-1960s Guy Ligier built and raced successful sports-prototypes designed by Michel Tetu.…

In less than quarter of an hour, the 1992 heirs to the Jensen dynasty recaptured their niches in our motoring heart. The West Bromwich company always supplied a unique, truly…

Greatest sports racing car Even when it wasn't winning, back kin '69, even when evil aerodynamic instability of the early cars killed poor John Woolfe, everyone knew the Porsche 917…

Philippe Etancelin's first big victory of the season, when he vanquished the Ferrari Alfa-Romeos at Dieppe, has been the cause of his Maserati being displayed in the showrooms of the…

Engine : Four cylinders, horizontally-opposed, 88 x 74 mm. (1,800 c.c.). Push-rod-operated overhead valves. 9.0-to-1 compression-ratio. 92 (net) b.h.p. at 5,200 r.p.m. Gear ratios : First, 12.9 to 1; second,…

Sir, I sincerely hope that your remarks in "Matters of Moment" will not discourage the M.C.C. and other clubs from holding events similar to the 1,000mile Rally. Unfortunately, I was…