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Sir, The letter from Mr. D. J. Burke is an insult to the intelligence of your readers. Perhaps his principal aim was to demonstrate the truth of the old cliché,…

Sir In reply to your query on page 726, I enclose the appropriate pages of the Handbook for a 6-cylinder Stutz engine so that you may draw your own conclusions…

Sydney Allard's Steyr-Allard makes F.T. D. Sydney Allard's Steyr-Allard, in practically the form in which it was described in the August Motor Sport, but with its rear coil springs now…

* The much-hyped Grand Prix Live event, which ran in troubled circumstances at Donington Park last May, has collapsed with debts of more than £1 million. Plans to incorporate the…

New look With the exception of one article, the May issue of Motor Sport appeared set in Bodoni. For seventeen years the pages of Motor Sport have been set in Scotch Roman, and when. it…

Mark Donohue Technical Excellence at Speed Michael Argetsinger Mark Donohue fans can at last add a new title to their bookshelves. Technical Excellence at Speed will make an essential companion…

Sir, Reading your magazine has become a must for all the staff who look after historic racing cars here at DaimlerChrysler. We read the Wish I'd Designed article in your…

True to tradition, the VSCC lightcarists, joined by a number of Edwardian brethren and the Collings' veteran Mercedes and Darracq, journeyed to Mid-Wales on April 7th / 8th for their…

Clement Talbot, Ltd., of Barlby Road, Ladbroke Grove, are showing a full range of their ordinary models, but not the special sports with which they are hopeful of doing so…

Reliability and Precision Which country has made the greatest contribution to the development of the high-performance or racing automobile? France? Great Britain? Italy? Germany? There is no single, certain answer;…

After three years of being the sole driver at Ligier, Laffite was suddenly faced with an equally fast Frenchman By Rob Widdows My God, I had so many! Which one…

For most people, an End-to-End run stops at John O'Groats. Hamish Moffat, Bugatti racer and vintage flyer, plans to take his OM tourer to Tierra del Fuego and head north...…