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Although not planning to announce full details of their rally programme until later this month, Leyland Motorsport just couldn't keep one story under wraps; Roger Clark's agreement to drive a…

Sir, I was delighted to see the fine and timely articles on Jo Siffert by Nigel Roebuck and Andrew Frankel (November issue). The first motor race I watched was the…

TRYING A ":SECOND HANDER" WHEN the 30-98 h.p. Vauxhall was produced it quickly rose to a high degree of favour amongst motoring sportsmen. And when it was removed from the…

1932 Italian Championships. The winners of the various Italian championships for 1932 have now been dec.d_d, the results being as follows : Drivers: Unlimitid, Tazio Nuvolari ; up to 1,500…

Sir, I am the owner of a 1933 Riley 9 Lynx four-door open tourer, registration OC 99, which I understand to have been a well known amateur hillclimb car, chiefly…

A real road hog Sir, Very good story from Rob Widdows on the Porsche Pink Pig (November issue). I was impressed to learn too that Herr Bischof is so articulate…

ON THE ROAD WITH A "GAMECOCK." GOOD ROAD-HOLDING QUALITIES AND HIGH CRUISING SPEED CHARACTERISE NEW RILEY MODEL. SINCE the introduction of the famous Brooklands model of the Riley "9," which…

Sir, My letter is prompted by the reading, in your November 1975 issue, of the typically well written article on Sand Racing—very much a part of my early life at…

Cotton's 1,203-c.c. Cotton-Special Comes Through Tough Event with No Marks Lost On February 19th the Southsea M.C. held its annual President's Trophy Trial, a thoroughly pleasant, and well-run event, of…

Why Herbert's first win exorcised years of anguish ”He'll be OK, but his sporting days are over." The surgeon who shuffled sadly out of the operating theatre to meet Johnny…

Private VI A 'You fe There' sprK,ial ng gnored for dec.-s, tnese s des faces and cars Aft otter a rt Baxter has been a faithful Motor Sport reader, and…

Sir, I was most interested in the article on the 1939 British Empire Trophy race at Donington and it is possible that I may be able to add a few…