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Andrew Frankel: After the disappointing Europa, Lotus is back to doing what it does best with the road-legal 2-Eleven trackday special. All you need is a trailer to cart it…

I read in the Northamptonshire Mercury & Herald that Mr. Fowler, the Minister of Transport, is considering scrapping the vehicle road tax and introducing instead a tax on the possession…

Which was first? I saw in a classic magazine the historical statement that the first British road car with four valves per cylinder was the Bentley. While accepting that all…

We have just received a most important announcement from Bourne. Raymond Mays, who has been negotiating with some of the most influential engineering manufacturers in the country, informs us that…

A section devoted to old-car matters By Brushmobile to Brighton The Veteran Car Run to Brighton is always fun, not perhaps quite such fun as in pre-war days, but enormous…

WE welcome letters for publication in these columns. Letters intended for publication must be written on one side of the paper only and they may be signed with a nom-deplume,…

The 1985 season of Formula One Grand Prix racing gets under way in April after a pretty busy winter of testing by most of the teams. The only serious change…

If Brands Hatch Leisure, promoter of the British Formula 3000 Championship, gets its way, there won't be a British F3000 Championship in 1992. This has nothing to do with the…

Graham Chambers, Thatched Cottage, Womenswold, Canterbury, Kent CT4 6HE, is hoping to encourage the racing of the more ordinary Austin 7s, with races for them at Brands Hatch, Donington and…

Sir, I note your readers have taken an interest in plastic model-car kits. I have assembled a great many of these, and believe I have sampled just about all of…

"Bouverie Street to Bowling Green Lane," by A. C. Armstrong, A.I.A.E. (Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., 20s.) A. C. Armstrong, Managing Editor of The Motor, offers in this book a history…

The unforeseen 'postponement' of the one-off Reims retro and the cancellation of the traditional Trophee des Ardennes meeting at SpaFrancorchamps has robbed Historic racers of the opportunity to compete on…