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Matters of moment, January 1975
The trend of design At the commencement of another year it is encouraging to discover that some of the past…
The trend of design At the commencement of another year it is encouraging to discover that some of the past…
Miniatures News The race for ever-more-ingenuity in the miniatures field has been advanced another step by Meccano Ltd., who have…
International Calendar for 1975 AS THESE WORDS are appearing in print the first Grand Prix of 1975 is only 12…
Two Sides of the Coin McLaren's effort on both sides of the Atlantic IT IS little more than ten years…
Before We Lose Track THE McLaren firm have built racing cars for almost every type of racing, and even built…
World Championship to Lancia For people involved with World-Class International Rallying, the months of October and November can hardly have…
The Formula One Scene WHEN THE non-motoring sponsors appeared on the Grand Prix scene I looked a bit sideways at…
The Leather-Bound World of Connolly IN THE late 150s and early '60s, almost 85% of the hides processed by Connolly…
Marshall's Firenza A study of one of the most successful Special Saloons in British club racing IF ONE were to…
Around and About The Fiat 131 Mirafiori FIAT'S penetration of the European car market dropped from a peak of 13.7%…
Veteran Edwardian Vintage A SECTION DEVOTED TO OLD-CAR MATTERS CARE OF TYRES A New Book about Dunlop OBSOLETE SIZES of…
Vintage Postbag Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars Sir, Reference is made in MOTOR SPORT for November 1974 to Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars. Ilow…
Pictorial History THE IDEA of presenting motoring history pictorially is not new; the late Toni Rolt compiled such a book,…
Cars in Books From "Both Hands" by Gervas Huxley (Chatto & Windus, 1970) comes a splendid description of a iong…
Esholt, Nr. Shipley, Yorks. The Airedale car depicted in a contemporary Motor Show catalogue. I am fortunate in being able…
"The Indy 500—An American Institution Under Fire" by Ron Dorson. 229 pp. 9¼ in. x 6 in. (Bond Parkhurst Books,…
Last November some of the James Barron collection of motoring objets d'art were tastefully displayed in part of Bethnal Green…
Road Test The Vauxhall Firenza AFTER a bad spell with models which did not quite come off and cars with…
Looking Back with Bruce Halford WHEN CONSIDERING the astronomic sums of money which several current Grand Prix teams state is…
Editor Contemplates— The Subtle Art of Fast Cornering IT IS A curious facet of the human race that among quite…
Murray Walker turns 94 years young today, which is the perfect time to watch this entertaining clip again. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame this year as the…
Just 90 days after its announcement, the Vantage looks ready to go in this year’s DTM The new Aston Martin Vantage DTM car has had a track debut in a…
Read and listen to an extract from the exclusive Alan Henry Tapes, in which Ayrton Senna talks to Alan Henry and Denis Jenkinson about overtaking on one of the most…
Last year, the Goodwood Revival featured an 'into the night' race, harking back to the early 1950s. In 1952, 1953 and 1955 Goodwood hosted a nine-hour race, starting in the…