Late last year I just missed going out in a very smart, long-tailed sports Belgian FN (a 12/50 hp model I suspect), which had been here for professional restoration for…

Stanley Mann tells us that on April 26th another attack on long-standing records by a vintage Bentley will be made at the banked Millbrook circuit. The plan is to try…

In case you might think that I have led a blameless life, let me quote from a Hampshire newspaper cutting I dug out recently. It reads "when William Boddy, 29,…

Where The Menace Lies "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."— Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, Chap, 3. So-called civilised countries these days fear all manner of…

The Ford Escort Twin-Cam Last year, when the Ford Escort was an exciting new model, I tried it in 1300GT form, which is about the best all-round version of this…

Return of the cyclecar? Motor Sport  used to investigate some forgotten makes, when I was able to offer more data about such cars than had appeared in the weekly motor…

Michael Ware "discovered" that 1922 3-litre Bentley which is causing so much controversy and excitement in BDC circles, only in as much as he referred to it in his Discovered…

When the Wolseley Hornet Special Club re-enacted the 1932 LCC Brooklands Relay Race at Silverstone on July 26, it was able to get three drivers who had driven in this…

VSCC fixtures for 1988 follow the pattern of last year, with the Pomeroy Trophy event on March 5 and the main race meetings at Silverstone on April 23 and June…

Ralph Stokes Ralph Stokes, the enthusiastic Monte Carlo competitor, has died at the age of 90. His competition career began on motorcycles in the 1920s, notably with a Brough Superior…

Owen John went off alone on his summer tour of 1926 in his 16/65hp Rover saloon, complaining that without a companion he tended to drive too quickly, and that he…

Javelin in disguise The accompanying photograph shows a very neat racing car, which you might be excused for thinking was a near-relative of the rear-engined Cisitalia or something equally top-line.…