A section devoted to old car matters ...and Maclachlan's Lea-Francis, and Livesey's Wolseley Hornet was best up the Test Hill (fastest lap this year, 122. 97 mph, by Penn-Hughes' blown…

It is not exactly breaking the official Secrets Act to remind readers that the name "Marcos" is a combination of the surnames of Jem Marsh and Frank Costin. In the…

Merrick Taylor, general manager of the Kieft Sports Car Company in the late Fifties, has sent us this photograph of the Kieft works in 1958, which is remarkable not only…

Richard Owen Design & Engineering It is common to talk of the courage, determination and competitiveness of racing drivers but rather hear constructors described in the same terms, yet they…

Following a fortnight after Crystal Palace there was a huge field assembled for the Rhein Cup race at the notorious Hockenheim circuit. The circuit remained exactly as before, a battle…

It was not so long ago that Audi was perceived as a maker offering worthy, well-engineered, slightly upmarket, but ultimately unexciting cars, a cut above the larger Volkswagens, perhaps, but…

We have been told of a longtime reader who has unfortunately lost his sight and who is distressed at no longer being able to read his favourite magazine. Perhaps he…

Hysterical Historics There are people in the advertising world who say that if you tell the public loud enough and long enough, they will believe anything. In the journalistic world…

W. O. Bentley, in his autobiography, tells us that on January 20th, 1919, Harry Varley, Burgess and he sat down with nothing but a few bits of paper and some…

In April 1976 we published intimate information about the unsuccessful Sunbeam "Silver Bullet" Land Speed Record car and as we have also looked at the 200 m.p.h. twin-engined "1,000 h.p."…

V.E.V. Miscellany.—A reader in Berkshire has some spares for a 1934 Le Mans Singer he is prepared to give away. The Kent Mercury carried a story in June about a…

Vauxhall Astra GTE One of the more exciting of the small European hatchbacks of 1985 is the revised Vauxhall (Opel) Astra in GTE form - indeed, an International jury has…