It is very apparent how many of the original Austin Sevens have survived, so that they are prominent in VSCC trials and well represented in the speed events and races…

Morgan memories Some time ago the proud owner of the Morgan Plus-4, KAB 303, reintroduced me to it, reminding me that I had run it as editorial transport in the…

The British Motor Corporation, as the World's largest producer of sports cars (in the past 18 years they have made nearly 350,000 Austin Healey and M.G. sports models, exporting nearly…

It came as a great shock to learn that cheerful Dudley Gahagan had died on February 1; he seemed the sort who would 'go on for ever'. Born in Kensington…

In "The Duchess of Jermyn Street" by Daphne Fielding (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964) which is about the life of Rosa Lewis who rat) the legendary Cavendish Hotel, there is a reference…

Bill Boddy imagines himself in the shoes of one of the best-known of journalist-racers, and ponders the less remembered side to his motorsporting activities. Who would I most like to…

Audi 90 quattro Following a fairly recent rearrangement of the renowned Audi model range the Audi 80s will use only four-cylinder engines the celebrated five-in-line power-units (used because Audi couldn't…

Having seen the advertisement for a Type 35A Bugatti (registration LXV 332) in February's Motor Sport, believed to be an ex-Malcolm Campbell car now rebuilt and road-equipped, a reader writes…

The annual Welsh weekend of the VSCC Light Car Section saw 59 intrepid crews set out on the Saturday navigational-cum-scenic run and the nine-section trial on the Sunday. On such…

Driving some Straight-Eights In that extremely worthwhile book "Lost Causes of Motoring," Lord Montagu remarks that "the straight-eight principle stalks like some sinister skeleton through the story of motoring's lost…

"The German Grand Prix," by Cyril Posthumus. 143 pp., 7/2 1 in. 6 1 in. (Temple Press Books, Bowling Green Lane, London, EC 1. 21s.). This is the third in…

"The Best of Brockbank". 96 pp. 10 in.x 6 1/2 in. (David & Charles Ltd., South Devon House, Newton Abbot, Devon. £2.95). Brockbank's admirers, of those inimitable motoring cartoons, so…