The Monte Carlo in retrospect The 1959 Monte Carlo Rally is all over bar the shouting. It has been described in some quarters as a fiasco but we imagine that…

Kenneth Ball of Autobooks Ltd. is restoring a vintage Cierva autogyro and would be pleased to hear from anyone who flew, owned, or was in any way associated with these…

Among the various ways in which enthusiasts thought up challenges for themselves and their cars in pre-war days was that of setting up personal 'records' over difficult or interesting journeys.…

The motorists' lot . . .  At this time of the Budget blues and an approaching General Election, one thinks of the motorists' lot, wondering whether it is any happier,…

(July 10th) In real summer weather the older cars gathered at Shelsley Walsh for their assault on a hill which as a competition venue is older than Brooklands. Indeed, the…

Last January the RREC Bulletin attain its 100th issue and this was celebrated by giving it a fine colour cover, depicting Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts at the Englefield Rally in 1976,…

Some time ago a reader noticed old signs for Talbot and Napier cars on a building in Tonbridge and this resulted in a letter from Mr. H. E. Hall, whose…

The changing face of motoring Inevitably the nature of motoring and the machinery in which it is done have changed since the war. No longer can we expect to get…

The sports rally which after a long hibernation was discovered in December 1999, and was found to have nearly completed a JCC Double 12 race, is being quickly restored by…

From The Aeroplane to cars Every week from about 1933 until the war I read The Aeroplane, edited by the great CG Grey (CGG), who ran it as a critically…

The first British model car meeting The British Model Car Club held its first meeting, and the initial public event of its kind to be staged in this country, at…

V-E-V Odds & Ends.—In last month's Fiat Rally report, a proof correction not having been made, we attributed the prize for the best British entrant to Hancock's OM in the…