Articles from the archive

Joy-riding When Duncan Rabagliati phoned last December to ask if I would like to join Team Rabagliati on the RAC Classic Run, he kindly offered me a choice of cars. There was…

EXETER" two-three seaterf ast-touring model, ah.v. engine, £395 The " COLMORZ" three-four seater de luxe fast-touring model, twin carburetter oli.v. engine, £495. The "REPLICA T.T.-ALPINE " two-seater model (modified lowered…

An interesting and well-organised S.S.C.C. International Meeting at Kinneil.  Rain spoils the second-half times. The second round of the R.A.C. Hill-Climb Championship was run off at Bo'ness on June 26th,…

Subject to FIA recognition, new International Compression-Ignition Class-D records for the s.s. I-mile, 1-mile and kilometre and for the f.s. kilo, and mile have been set by motoring journalist Fritz…

LET US HAVE REAL STANDARD-CAR TRIALS THIS ARTICLE, WRITTEN BEFORE WAR CAME, SUGGESTS AN INTERESTING APPROACH TO TRIALS' PROBLEMS THAT WILL PERSIST AGAIN WHEN PEACE IS DECLARED.—Ed. EVER since the…

How pleasant to read again Tom Plowman's notes on his Montlhery runs (Motor Sport, July 1989). A very decent chap Tom, against whom I had the pleasure of competing a…

Memories of the Oulton Park Gold Cup, '73 British GP and Gethin vanquishing the Porsches in lnterserie These evocative photos from the 1966 and '68 Oulton Park Gold Cup meetings…

Forty years after he became the first British driver to win a World Championship Grand Prix in a British car, Stirling Moss will be one of many stars taking part…

NO AMOUNT OF PEUGEOT PLANNING COULD DENY AUDI EXCELLENT DINNER AT THE RAC to wish Peugeot bonne chance at Le Mans. Stung by the freak engine failures that robbed it…

Sir, I enjoyed the letter from Christian Frederiksen (Denmark) about Jacky Ickx in your October issue. As a young boy I was a great fan of Ickx. I saw him…

Sir, I was most interested in your letter from Mr. A. B. Demaus concerning my father's early experiments with steam cars. The engine in the wagon was from an American…

A little bit of Sunbeam racing history came to light in an unexpected place, while we were reading an adventure story in the period style of Conan Doyle or Agatha…