The Hill is alive! For or its February driving-tests the Vintage Sports-Car Club went to the Museum site at Brooklands, commencing proceedings with ascents of the 80-year-old Test Hill, which…

Toleman's Enduro Making his third attempt to complete the Paris-Dakar Rally Raid, Ted Toleman, partnered by former World Hot Rod Champion Barry Lee, is entering a purpose-built Metro, designated the…

Most of the one-make clubs and some of the regional motor clubs publish magazines or news-letters, from simple duplicated sheets stapled together, to full-scale, very professional-looking productions. Indeed, such communication…

I bought a great wad of Weekend Daily Telegraph one Saturday, hoping to read what Doug Nye had to say about that BBC 1 Birkin motor racing drama, but it…

“… if Editorial privilege permits a glimpse into the ‘future', it is clear that our outstanding competitor this year is Guy Smith. Guy is not only regularly beating ERAs, but…

Half-Ton Formula, by Bernard Cowdray. Bookmarque, £24.99. This book covers Grand Prix and F1 cars and racing from 1961 to 1965. Though only a short period, it was a significant…

The Vintage MCC has already issued its full fixture list for 1998, which runs to 12 pages. The Secretary is Mrs Davy, Allen House, Wetmore Road, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire DE14 1TR.…

Anthony S Heal One of the best-known and supportive members of the VSCC and the sporting world of motoring, Anthony Heal died last month after being taken to hospital with…

When using the Kingston Bypass I used to call in at the HRG works (Halford, Robins & Godfrey) to collect a road-test HRG, or the Alta factory (Jeffery Taylor) to…

The Shuttleworth Trust at Old Warden is justifiably a popular mecca for vintage and veteran car and aeroplane enthusiasts, and Prop-Swing, journal of the Shuttleworth Veteran Aeroplane Society (membership secretary:…

This years major International Rally for pre-1930 cars and motorcycles was centred on Australia, where there is so much genuine enthusiasm tor the older vehicles and where there is still scope…

This is rather complicated, because there were the Rochet-Schneiders produced at Le Havre and, in the Edwardian period, the Theophile-Schneiders made at Besancon. Both makes appeared at Brooklands, the former…