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Matters of Moment, April 1969
• It's All Happening The sport of competitive motoring is again in full swing. Those who compete and those who…

• It's All Happening The sport of competitive motoring is again in full swing. Those who compete and those who…
—A climatic catastrophe Brands Hatch, March 16th This year the annual season-opener run by the B.R.S.C.C. broke new ground in…
The Swedish Rally There was once a popular theory that high-powered cars, such as Porsches, were not at all suitable…
Wheras the Swedish Rally is characterised by snow, the San Remo Rally ought to have been held in the March…
[By means of which the Continental Correspondent, while he is motoring abroad, keeps in touch with the Editor.] Dear W.…
There will be no steam-powered cars at Indianapolis this year. The last of three such projects fall by the wayside…
Never having led a very regulated or orderly life I tend to let things happen as they will and adjust…
A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters The V.S.C.C. Pomeroy Memorial Trophy Competition, Silverstone (March 1st)
John Howell tells us that the V16 Maserati is going together again. The single-seater Austin 7 which W. D. Castello…
The TB three-wheelers were built by Thompson Bros. (Bilston) Ltd., a company of boiler makers and steel fabricators formed in…
It came about like this. Graham Rankin, who lives just round the corner from me, last year acquired an impressive…
We have been asked to announce the following:— Auto 66 Vintage/Veteran Fixtures (April 13th and June 29th). These will be…
The French magazine, l'Anthologie Automobile, lists a race at Montlhéry on April 19/20th for historic cars in the Coupe de…
Any fresh information about Rolls-Royce history is getting very hard to come by, and although new things about Brooklands come…
Having, on another page, reviewed Sir Harry Ricardo's very enjoyable autobiography, recently published, it was interesting to come upon an…
The 70th anniversary of the first car being driven into the yard of the House of Commons is to be…
Welcome as marking the end of winter, the full return of spring (it may be snowing, of course) the first…
Exaggeration Sir, I could not agree more strongly with your sentiments on high-powered advertising of vintage and "specialist" cars: in…
No, not that sort of plug, or even that one. But we were astonished when, immediately after the last-but-one episode…
For the last seven years the South African Grand Prix has been held just before or just after New Year’s…
McLaren and Mercedes have managed to exploit the grey area of elasticity in F1's aero rules, much to Red Bull's chagrin – if it can't beat them, will it take the risky option of joining them?
Footage. Not the billion specks of memory imprinted on sanitised microscopic chips. Rather the reels of it stacked in dusty storerooms: analogue stuff that you can touch – if not…
Highlights of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Party in the Poconos 400 at Pocono Raceway Click here to visit the highlights page.
I’m going to start this column with a disclaimer: I have never crashed a Formula 1 car at nearly 200mph. I’ve had plenty of heavy shunts in go-karts, but the…