Archive Flashback Readers with reliable memories may recall that in March 1974 MOTOR SPORT was able, through a correspondent in Johannesburg, to fill-in for Lord Donegall some details of a giant car… November 1975 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Looking In At Jaguar Some notes on the famous Coventry firm and a description of the new Jaguar XK150 The title does not refer to the several occasions on which Jaguar cars have appeared… June 1957 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Early Trojan economics The Trojan Owners Club has dug up that famous 1924 advertisement "Can You Afford To Walk?", which detailed the cost of walking 200 miles compared to that of driving the… April 1989 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Brighton Run retirements The official results of the prolifically supported Kenco RAC Veteran Car Run show 359 starters out of 427 entries of pre-1905 cars. The 49 unfortunates who retired were: T Moore… January 1989 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive V-to-C Miscellany, October 1995, October 1995 The undertaking of reproducing a complete set of Bugantics, the magazine of the Bugatti OC, is progressing, and having seen an example of a facsimile of Vol 8, No 1… October 1995 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Sports cars under £700: the £641 Triumph Spitfire 4 A 93 m.p.h. British small sports car with all-round independent suspension, disc front brakes and wind-up glass windows, Taxi-beating turning circle and a s.s. quarter-mile in 19.5 seconds In vintage… April 1963 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Book Reviews, August 1962, August 1962 "Santos-Dumont - A Study in Obsession" by Peter Wykeham. 278 pp. 8 3/4in. x 5 5/8in. (Putnam and Co., 42, Great Russell Street, London, W.C.1. 30s.) This biography of the… August 1962 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive News Flash News Flash An unexpected if very brief encounter with motoring history punctuated TV coverage of the Westland Affair, that unhappy or welcome piece of Government bungling, depending on which Party… March 1986 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive A mysterious Minx I am supposed to know a bit about Brooklands, having seen my first race meeting there over 73 years ago. But can anyone tell me about a car of which… December 2000 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive That Royale! The Bugatti Royale sold for £5,000,000 at a Christie's Auction has been just about done to death in the media. The price paid by London vintage-car dealer Nicholas Harley (actually… January 1988 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive The day we went to Brighton Keith Howard's recent recall of Archie Butterworth's 4WD AJB reminded me of a hectic weekend I had in 1949. The AJB was entered for Brighton Speed Trials, and I was… January 2003 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Cyclecar Capers Only comparatively recently has the Light Car & Edwardian Section of the VSCC concerned itself with increasing numbers of vehicles of the cyclecar class, which provide fun for their drivers,… July 1995 Issue By Bill Boddy