One has to admire the Trojan OC for publishing a lively monthly newsletter in spite of the paucity of these cars now in use. We feel sure it would like…

Sir John Betjeman, one of the bestloved English poets, who refers to cars in some of his works, such as his father's elderly Rover landaulette, and even a Bugatti in…

By a coincidence, having recalled my first acquaintance with a Derby-built Bentley, I received a letter from a long-standing reader congratulating me on the "LE JOG" run I did in…

Such was Bob Gerard's talent that he could take on post-war works GP teams in ancient ERA. Bill Boddy remembers him. Frederick Robert Gerard - Bob to the motor racing…

As regular readers will know, I contrive to see one Air Display a year, for old times' sake, and as the V.S.C.C. were putting on a demonstration of historic racing…

The Editor Looks Back on the Cars He Drove During 1978 I had intended giving this annual look-back a miss this time, after more than 25 years of summarising my…

The majority of people rate the Volkswagen Golf GTi, dating from 1976, as one of the best, if not the top small car. Some 10,000 RHD Golf GTi's have been sold…

Angela Rippon, BBC Newscaster, is a girl of many parts. When we received a BBC hand-out announcing that she was to have her own BBC Motoring Programme, we tried to…

After selling something like two dozen Aston Martin V8 cars from a sales base in Hampshire, ex-Grand Prix driver Innes Ireland has now moved across to Oxfordshire, where he has…

AT strangely regular intervals there is an outburst of professed indignation in Parliament against people accused of using their cars for pleasure purposes. Anyone who was once in the habit…

A Section Devoted To Old Car Matters VSCC Lllandow Thruxton being unavailable, the VSCC went to Llandow circuit in S. Wales for its final race meeting of 1973. There was…

Obtaining Performance Figures for the Shorrock-supercharged Austin Healey Sprite Last month we had an opportunity of taking performance figures for the Shorrock-supercharged Austin Healey Sprite, for which the Donald Healey Motor Company,…