The Mercedes-Benz W154 demonstration at the VSCC Donington Meeting on May 23 prompts the question of how Mercedes (which we never, ever called 'Silver Arrows) fared in the Grands Prix…

"The Classic Twin-Cam Engine" by Griffith Borgeson. 275 pp. 10" x 7" (Dalton Watson. 76 WardourStreet, London, WIV 4AN. £24.75 This is the long-awaited, very scholarly study by the painstaking…

• The new "Blower" Bentley The Bentley image is that of a sporting car, whether as true sports models from Cricklewood or "Silent Sporting Cars" from Derby and Crewe. This…

Most petrol-heads (Ghastly description), whose enthusiasm, I thought, came from the heart, even the soul, will have owned quite a few cars. But who can compete with G RN Minchin…

Ford-Engined Cars Win 7 Out of 8 Races Goodwood was nearly washed away on March 14th but racing took place just the same; the concrete of the Brooklands' Paddock resisted…

Following the article we published last January on an M.A.G.-supercharged Volkswagen, we have received many enquiries, while details of other "souped-up"  VWs have been coming at us thick and fast! Before we…

Any excuse is good enough for a party! The other day the phone rang and Julian Ghosh told me he had remembered that the next day was the 70th anniversary…

Those Goodwood dates for 1998 – make a note now: Festival of Speed – June 12/14; reopening of the Goodwood race circuit – September 18/20. Montlhéry track near Paris is…

The VMCC is rightly pleased that among its 13,000-plus membership it has more than a few lady riders. However, before the girls feel too unique it may be interesting to…

Another year has evaporated since Earls Court closed its doors on the 1962 Motor Show. It has been twelve months of astonishing rather than stirring times, with the Prime Minister…

Motorsport Explosion! Britain's New Car Industry is in a decline, due to the recession, despite Rover, Ford, Vauxhall and Jaguar having spent between them £98.6million on advertising last year —…

I have been looking at the trial of Lord de Clifford, the last time a peer agreed to be tried "before God and his fellow peers", and so a slice…