It is difficult, if one is interested in the older cars, not to check on what turns out for even a modest local event. For example, I discovered that this…

With road-racing banned in mainland Britain, such events could only be organised offshire. Bill Boddy recalls Jersey's lively but short-lived attempt to turn itself into a car racing haven Jersey,…

Two Fiat "Firsts"—and a Fiat Failure And in looking at the conundrum of the 1923 200-Mile Race, uncovers some more unsolved motor-racing mysteries Perhaps it was tactless of me to…

A pleasant and well attended party recently took place at the Haynes-Sparkford Motor Museum, in association of the opening, by the Chairman of S Somerset DC and Her Worship the…

The School of Instruction at Hythe Road. I was under the impression, along perhaps with others, that the Rolls-Royce Chauffeurs' School had been a war casualty. This is not the…

The VSCC has expanded significantly since a group of young enthusiasts founded it in 1934 to encourage the preservation, and especially the use, of what they regarded as proper sportscars,…

Christian Lautenschläger is lauded for winning for Mercedes two of their greatest landmarks, the 1908 and 1914 French Grands Prix. Memorable, because he was a test-driver competing against the elite…

It was a bit of a surprise to find BBC Radio 4 putting on a piece about Brooklands in its Archive Hour in November. It was composed by Ashley Jones,…

The end in sight When we were younger, between very small and adolescent, a sandwich-man bearing placards inscribed "THE END IS NIGH - PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD" put the…

The Editor Enjoys a Drive in This Delightful and Splendidly-Rebuilt Vintage Racing Car When I heard that Bill Lake had acquired the ex-Segrave 1922 GP Sunbeam so ably rebuilt by…

With the death of Guy Griffiths the motoring world has lost another great character. I shall miss hugely the phone chats we had as we both grew older. Guy began…

A section devoted to old-car matters 1973.—Another intense season of veteran, Edwardian, vintage, post-vintage-thoroughbred and merely old-vehicle activities is about to start, proclaimed by last month's Entry into Europe Rally…