Because I was unable to try the much-publicised ("Car of the Year, 1980") Lancia Delta when Andrew Andersz, the British PRO, first found one for me, due to other business commitments,…

I like to see one Air Display a year and what better than the one at Shobdon, run by the Herefordshire Aero Club? This year, in spite of much low cloud…

More about books  "The Flight of the Mew Gull" by Alex Henshaw. 310 pp. 83/4'' x 51/2''. (John Murray Ltd., 50 Albemarle Street, London, W1X 4RB. £9.50). This is an absolutely splendid book and…

A section devoted to old-car matters  Mascots Another reason for visiting Mr. Lowndes (see page 1179, last month) was to look at the splendid collection of car mascots amassed originally by his late father. They…

Top model of the VW-Audi range, the Turbo 200 5T is an impressive car. It is very fully equipped, for maximum comfort, it has a most impressive performance, and it is clearly a…

In the 1920s Leslie Wilson of Shelsley Walsh fame was responsible for some children's pedal cars based on the 12/50 Alvis that won the 1923 JCC 200-Mile Race. I suppose we…

It is the illustrations which catch the eye, from a motoring standpoint, in "If Britain Had Fallen" by Norman Longmate (BBC/ Hutchinson, 1972). These WW2 war-time photographs show many 1930s vehicles…

"Lancia then adopted front-wheel-drive but this was obviously not the reason for the progressive decline of that once-glorious marque. The choice of models, their excessive weight and high manufacturing costs were,…

Blackbushe Air Show (June 14th) As a change from motoring there is much to be said for an Air Display, and seeing that sky-divers were due at Blackbushe on June…

The appeal of vintage racing was endorsed on August 4th, when, in spite of torrential rain almost all day at the Prescott speed hill­climb, spectators turned up in their usual…

Some references to the recently-found Young Special pre-war Brooklands car which we illustrated last month suggest that its four-cylinder Hooker Thomas engine came from one of the "flat-iron" Thomas Specials…

Anthony Heal puts his 1926 twin-cam 3-litre Sunbeam to good use. We saw it at the Brooklands Reunion and before that, after attending the. Wolverhampton Centenary celebrations, Heal drove it…