A Great Little Car Costing Only £3,000 It was fine to be back in an Alfa Romeo product again, after all too long a lapse, even if the car I tried was only…

The Reliant Scimitar GTC The Reliant Motor Company of Two Gates, Tamworth, Staffordshire, thought up the idea of a fast hatchback, using Ford power and transmission, as a follow-up to…

There is sometimes controversy as to where the famous Blue Bird Restaurant at Brooklands, so well-patronised by the aviation fraternity, was situated, before it was destroyed by fire just before the…

A section devoted to old-car matters VSCC Silverstone Driving Tests It had been said that only mad dogs and Englishmen stay out in the noon-day sun. It might equally be said that…

Two of the outstanding 1.5-litre sportscars of the vintage years were the 12/50 Alvis and the 12/50 Lea-Francis. Of the same engine capacity, so taxed at the same rate under…

The Six-Cylinder BMW 2800 An Extremely Fast and Accelerative Medium-Capacity Saloon which is Near-Perfect in Almost All Respects After reviving their fortunes with a range of extremely good o.h.c. four-cylinder…

This column leans this month on a reader, Mr. J. S. Derry of South Africa who writes as follows: Would the following be of any use for the feature “Cars…

From "Long Before Forty", the autobiography of the late C. S. Forester of the celebrated "Hornblower" books (Michael Joseph, 1967), comes an interesting example of how cars were rated at…

The Sunbeam Rapier H120 and The Auto-Union Audi 100LS Two Interesting Closed Cars with High-Efficiency 1.7-litre Engines and Similar Performance—Both in the £1,500 Price Bracket Comparisions are said to be…

A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters The V.S.C.C. at Thruxton Neil Corner (Bugatti) clinches "Motor Sport" Brooklands Memorial Trophy The Vintage Sports Car Club’s final race meeting of 1969 took…

By Michael Radford. 200 pp. 11 in. x 8 7/8 in. (J. B. Associates, 52a, Bell Street, Henley-on-Thames. Oxon. £3.90, plus 35p postage) There have been plenty of books about…

Fine weather, a good entry, big crowds and three new class records made this year's Vintage SCC hill-climb at Prescott a happy occasion. The course was opened by Tim Carson…