If a tricycle was first home in this year's Veteran Car Run (see Brighton Breezes) Johnny Thomas also arrived early in his Napier. This was no mean feat, especially as…

From time to time I have a feeling that I want to have twins. I mean, a car with this paucity of 'pots', and perhaps a crackling exhaust-pipe on each…

De Dion Bouton was the most popular entry, with 65, and it was fitting that, in this year of the Mercedes-Benz centenary, there were 15 Benz and nine Mercedes. Daimler-Benz…

The annual VSCC Prescott hill-climb was held on August 12th in hot weather and attracted a record crowd of spectators. The 12/50 Alvis Register had a birthday party in the…

It is interesting to discover what cars people owned in vintage times and in what sequence, or so I find. So I was pleased when a thoughtful reader sent in…

The Club held its 47th AGM at the RAC late last month, after which the 1982 Awards were presented. There are 27 of these fine trophies, of which the more…

Merit have added to their range of plastic racing car kits a realistic Cooper 500 Mk. Xl. This model is exceedingly pleasing, because the engine, suspension units, drive-shafts, etc., are…

PETROL, PETROL EVERYWHERE, BUT NOT A DROP FOR SALE The big petroleum companies command respect. With other vast industrial and manufacturing enterprises they offer employment to thousands, play a significant…

Engine : Six cylinders, 74.7 x 76 mm. (1,998 c.c.). Pushrod-operated overhead valves. 8.0-to-1 compression ratio. 80 (net) b.h.p. at 4,400 r.p.m. Gear ratios : First, 14.5 to 1; second,…

Fiat's wonderful Centro Storico museum in Turin contains an example of every product it has made, from ships, tractors, trams, railway locomotive and stock, aeroplanes, aero-engines to racing and ordinary…

A little bit of Sunbeam racing history came to light in an unexpected place, while we were reading an adventure story in the period style of Conan Doyle or Agatha…

A mystery of sixty years' standing was solved last month when the owner of an early Frazer Nash was taken by AFN Ltd's MD, John Aldington, to the AFN Archives…