The Renault 5 Gordini As a means of getting a move on without using very much fuel the Renault 5 Gordini proved to be a most commendable proposition, when tried…

Some notes on the Ford Zephyr 4 Automatic The fact that I drove a smart red, 6.40 x 13 Goodyear Whitewall-shod Ford Zephyr 4—the 1,703 c.c. 4-cylinder Zephyr—with an automatic…

"The AA — A History of the Automobile Association, 1905-1980" by Hugh Barty-King. 319 pp, 101/2",111/2". (The Automobile Association, Fanum House, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 2EA, £14.95). To commemorate its 75th year,…

B.M.C.'s Cooper-Minis Win Team Prize. Pat Moss/Pauline Mayman (Austin Healey 3000) Take Ladies' Award A Peugot 403B saloon rolls to a standstill in the darkened town of Newport, Salop, before…

A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters Golden Jubilee of the Vintage Bentley—1969 Nineteen sixty-nine marks the Golden jubilee of the vintage Bentley car. Fifty years ago, in Chagford Street, near…

Like most mechanical objects, cars will give trouble sooner or later. I have a theory that on less-expensive models minor, niggling defects will begin after about 4000 miles, and that…

Of the cars referred to above, the Viper vanished mysteriously in the 1930s but Delage II, rebuilt and re-bodied for VSCC racing by N Arnold-Forster, is about to be auctioned,…

The most prolific car in vintage events is the original Austin 7, which says much for the good quality of Lord Austin’s £165 baby from its appearance in 1922. It…

British Grand Prix by Maurice Hamilton. 271 pp. 10½" x 8¼". The Crowood Press Ltd, Gipsy Lane, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 6DQ. £18.95. This is a revised and enlarged edition of…

It was my pleasant duty to look in at the Model Engineer Exhibition, now in its 47th year, to see what there was of interest in our world, in small scale. The…

I am indebted to James Beckett and the BRDC Bulletin for reminding me of those racing drivers who have received knighthoods. Sir Stirling Moss, of course, whom I watched racing…

All quiet at the Palace Although Britain is well-provided with race circuits, if they are not further threatened by bans on account of noise, which airports escape, it is sad…