Party pieces Competition events apart, another fun aspect of the vintage-car movement is the private party to commemorate, even celebrate, some occasion in the career of a particular motor car.…

PETERBOROUGH M.C. SILVERSTONE MEETING (Sept. 17th) Peterborough M.C. held a race meeting with 199 entries spread over 13 races and are to be complimented on running these off expeditiously in…

Ford Ten-engined "specials" based on the multi-tubular frame, special suspension and other parts of which Bucklers, of Reading, make a speciality, are becoming increasingly popular. In order to discover what are their…

To Trail or not to Trail . . . A contemporary magazine has commented editorially on the VSCC's decision to penalise in future those competitors who bring cars to its…

The golden autumn Sunday of October 14th was the occasion of a BRSCC Race Meeting at Brands Hatch, attended by a crowd of 37,000 and given a Continental atmosphere by the beautiful…

It was good indeed that the 10.5-litre V12 Delage raced at Brooklands by Cobb, Bertram and Mrs K Petre, now owned by John and Johnty Williamson, was at the Goodwood…

"Model Car Collecting," by F. Brian Jewell. 104 pp. 7 7/8 in. x 5 1/4 in. (Temple Press Books Limited, 42, Russell Square, London, W.C.1. 15s) The model car movement has…

The Water Speed Record By Kevin Desmond (Batsford, 1976) having been long out of print, a little book by Fred Harris, edited by Mike Rimmer, is a useful stand-in. It…

The late Donald Campbell's "Bluebird" with which he broke the Land Speed Record in 1964 at 403.1 m.p.h. has been purchased for £85,000 by the Science Museum, the NMM Heritage Memorial…

Developed for Tommy Sopwith, the Sphinx proved that Armstrong Siddeley could build a sportscar Armstrong Siddeleys were regarded by most of the sporting fraternity as pedestrian, even sluggish, but that…

In the period of motoring development which we now refer to as the vintage years special-building was more common than it is now, both for competition work and for road…

It is only right that Fiat, the largest and most powerful car-manufacturer In Italy, should rnarket a luxury model. In vintage times there was the great Fiat Forty, with a…