Archive Changing "Historics" MOTOR SPORT has always concerned itself with motoring history and has seen the vintage car movement grow and grow. It dates back further than is generally realised, to The Motor's… September 1990 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Half-pints reach half-century The 50th anniversary of the VSCC Light Car & Edwardian Section, having been deflected from its correct date by the foot-and-mouth outbreak, even unto the compact Welsh town of Llandrindod… September 2001 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive To Presteigne in “Agatha”, the Renault [Although vintage cars have had quite a vogue of recent years, the journeys made on the public road with them have not been so numerous, so we make no excuse… February 1940 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive The Last Leyland Eight The Leyland Eight, designed by J. G. Parry Thomas and named "The Lion of Olympia" when it made its debut at the 1920 London Motor Show, has several claims to… July 1977 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Veteran to classic The roads of the 1920s In 1927, at a time when the 21hp six-cylinder Delage saloon (the 3-litre descendant of the Delage I wrote about last month) was being praised… April 1988 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Speed at Madresfield In 1925 the ban fell on speed events on public roads, brought to a head by the accident to a spectator at Key hill near Princes Risborough (non-fatal, contrary to… November 1985 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive A steam car in production The other day I drove to Brierley Hill in Staffordshire to visit a factory where steamcars have recently gone into production. Indeed, they are being made on massproduction lines, which… November 1976 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Goodbye to "The Aeroplane" It is sad to have to bid goodbye to the The Aeroplane, the final issue of which was published last October. This lively, controversial, and respected weekly first appeared in… January 1969 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive VSCC Cadwell Park Meeting As for the past two years since 1976, Vintage SCC wound-up its racing season at 'hi twisty but accommodating circuit in Lincoln shire, where the Club is given a warm… October 1978 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive The Sports Cars of Britain The Editor takes stock of current productions from a country where such cars "come naturally" "They arrived in a light, open sports car: the car of the age, the car… July 1953 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Finally... Congratulations to Schumacher on winning his second F1 Drivers' World Championship with the Benetton-Renault. December 1995 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Another ghost story The account I wrote last October about Mr. S. R. Southall's two-owner 1920 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost tourer having been well received, I thought we would say a little more about… March 1977 Issue By Bill Boddy