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Here’s Part 4 of our theoretical look at the comparative speeds of leading GP cars: mid-engines, monocoques and wings arrive Words Mark Hughes. Photography: LAT 1959 Cooper T51 Index figure:…

Neither 750 Motor Club Birke t Relay race ran according to plan this year. The BF Goodridge Morgan Plus-8 team won the road-going and Historic event at Snetterton on October…

The Blower Bentley may be regarded as a racing failure but one very special single-seater did achieve success, lapping Brooklands faster than anything else had before. By Bill Boddy. It…

LAP-SCORING INACCURACIES IN BOTH JUNIOR AND SENIOR RACES SPOIL AN OTHERWLSEkENJOYABLE DAY'S SPORT-FINE DRIVING BY G. F. A. MANBY,COLEGRAVE (M.G. MAGNETTE). AREALLY bad mistake in lap scoring seldom occurs in…

Snaking between two Scottish mountains, this narrow pass was feared by early motorists. Then it became the most challenging hillclimb in Britain. Gordon Cruickshank went to see what remains Above…

"The Triumph 1300 . . stands alone as the best small car currently available."-The Autocar dated February 4th. "... you can hear a pin drop in the Triumph 2000-at 70…

Quick 2-litres at Brands Hatch, above: the Patrese/Röhrl Lancia Beta Monte-Carlo Turbo leads the Charnell/Raymond Chevron seconds after the start. All-American racer at Watkins Glen, left, is the Chevrolet Monza…

Graham Skillen had an informative article in the VSCC Bulletin on the elusive Frenchman T B Andre, who sold Marlborough light cars which he brought over from France, with premises…

[In March, 1940, we asked Cecil Glutton to outline the appeal of the vintage sports car, realising that war would inflate car prices and that many of our readers would…

A heat-wave rendered the A.M.O.C. Silverstone Meeting a warm business, with sun-bronzed backs (female) and sports shirts (male) much in evidence. Apart from some excellent racing, which included the St. John Horsfall…

Following his experience with the Chrysler-powered dragster Sydney Allard has introduced a Mini-dragster powered by a Shorrocks supercharged Ford Cortina engine, selling for £500 complete or £250 less engine. Allards have also…

By Rinsey Mills ISBN 1-85960-849-3 Published by Haynes, £19.99 Not another one, I hear you cry. But stand by — this one is worth reading. Mills augments this well-known story…