Articles from the archive

Rumours of exciting cars lying forgotten in garages are sometimes true, as John Starkey found it. With the discovery and subsequent sale at auction of the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33…

Further Impressions of the Lotus Elan At the end of last year Motor Sport had a Lotus Elan for road-rest and due to other commitments the Editor gave it to M.L.T., who…

Sir, Your feature about the Aintree circuit brought some wonderful boyhood memories flooding back. At the age of 12, I caught the bus with my mother to my first race…

Ford has gambled a reported $6 billion in production of the Mondeo, a front-drive middleweight destined for Europe and the USA (and, thence, to Japan). In Europe, of course, it…

Consequences of conformity It was entreated, implored, pressed, petitioned, pushed and even begged, but when the CSI of the FIA finally agreed to establish in 1970 what eventually became the…

The astonishing response to the Beetle as it emerged from war-time Germany may have tempted VW to come up with another beetle-shaped production. I recall the party put on in…

As an example of hard work, in 1921 The Autocar investigated 119 current cars and noted that they had, in total, 33 different movements of their ball or gate gear…

Francois Hurel Revised, and now in English, this is a cracking effort by the prolific Hurel who is rapidly becoming an authority on Le Mans. Concentrating on Porsches that ran…

Sir, I quite agree with Tony Caldersmith's letter in the May issue: the date of George Saunders' Cooper fire at Shelsley Walsh was 1948, not 1947, but I did not…

Bahrain’s sheikhs made way for a different kind of royalty at the season-opening Grand Prix, as 18 World Champions turned out for a special diamond anniversary By Simon Arron March…

John Bolster's "Veteran Types" article last December, on his 1911 "Silver Ghost" Rolls-Royce, car has aroused a lot of interest. Mr. W. A. Taylor, of Banwell, writes as follows of…

Safari rerun  Details have been unveiled of the event that re-creates the golden era of the African world rally championship round. The third running of the the East African Safari…