He was the 'Times' motoring correspondent when his eye for PR and a nose for a challenge began to enlarge his horizons. Bill Boddy follows the trail of a journalist…

I had just switched off a TV programme called "Did Darwin Get It Wrong?" the other night when it occurred to me that my description of the Porsche 924 Turbo's…

Twin peak revs An instrumental query over some early racing car dashboards I have been rereading Rex Hays’ book Vanishing Litres (MacGibbon & Kee, 1956), and one item puzzles me. The maker…

Fragments of forgotten makes No 68: The Dawson A car which was almost a lost cause before it was announced appeared lust after the Armistice, in the form of the…

A chance contact at a VSCC meeting sent me to Hereford last month to talk to Mr. Percy Pritchard about ttte old motoring days. He very kindly showed me his and his…

British initiative has produced the Rover T3 gas-turbine car. It has a free-turbine power unit, developed from the Rover industrial gas turbine of 1954, comprising a centrifugal compressor driven by a single-stage turbine and a…

Sue Barker got her piece in Saga magazine about buying a used Royce just in time, before the sellout to VW had people calling these cars by vulgar names, like…

Being in Somerset the other day, I had another look at the Haynes Motor Museum. It is a sparkling place to visit, the cars immaculate, as if just out of…

The Bob Roberts/Michael Barker Sports Car Collection at Bridgnorth Motor museums are springing up around this green and pleasant land rather like motoring mushrooms. Last January Motor Sport described the National…

If I were of the present generation I'd probably remark: "Really good!" or "Brilliant". I am not, but to say I was overwhelmed is an understatement. I refer to my recent…

A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters VSCC Silverstone race meeting (July 22nd) Torrential rain for practice, a slippery track for the first race, dull but dry weather thereafter, could not…

I have remarked previously on how well Lord Montagu looks after his guests and the Press when they visit his stately home and Motor Museum at Beaulieu in the New Forest—rather…