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A British £1,000 Sporting Saloon with Excellent Suspension and Roadholding and a Delightful Gear-Change, which Possesses Very Reasonable Performance. Interior Appointments Compel Pride of Ownership. The M.G. Magnette was introduced…

Pre-War Cars in Belgium Sir, I must correct the statement by Mr. S. J. Brown of the Morris Register published in these columns concerning the use of pre-war vehicles in…

Contributed by 2nd-Lt. R. S. G. Strachan, whose Second Senechal was more fully written-up in the issue of December, 1938 AN extremely ancient Morgan, so ancient, in fact, that its…

Club News WE HEAR Quite a number of interesting cars were encountered recently, notably a large vintage Panhard Lavassor saloon on the Embankment, an " 8.3" Renault in Gloucester, a…

Aganst the odds, the second Monaco historic Grand Prix will descend on the principality on May 28th 2000. Despite having lost a million francs on the 1997 event, the Automobile…

Hannu Mikkola, the man voted in this magazine by a panel of experts as the greatest rally driver of all time, is to come out of retirement. The legendary Finn…

Interlagos and its many charms “In qualifying you had to take it flat. If you stayed on the road, and the lap was good, you were on pole. If you…

RALLY-GUM-TRIAL TO TORQUAY After breakfast at Exeter, Windout Hill failed 24 cars, and the absence of horses or human towers resulted in much delay, especially as most of the un…

Obtaining a copy of "How To Make Enemies", by Ronald Duncan (Hart-Davis, 1968), after having read a favourable review of it in a back issue of The Field, I wasn't…

The most notable thing about the Spanish GP at Jarama was the number of drivers wanting to take part and the number of people and firms with money who want…

THE Vintage Motor Cycle Club, which now has more than 2,500 members, has two important events pending. The first round of their 1970 National Grass Track Championship happens at Sibley…

Murray Walker will celebrate 60 years of commentating at Silverstone during this July’s Silverstone Classic. Murray’s first commentary for the BBC was at the 1949 British GP and, to mark…