A Breakthrough in DIY Car Painting A PROBLEM facing those who are smartening-up or restoring the older cars has been that, if small areas of paintwork are retouched, it is…

An original road test taken from the Motor Sport archives, February 1951 by Bill Boddy Ever since we took a short run in one of last year's Le Mans Aston…

Races for pure road cars predate the more famous Le Mans and Spa 24-hour endurance events, as Bill Boddy reminds us The first touring car grand prix was held in…

A small party of Pressmen met at Langley Motors, Thames Ditton, in April, to see how the B.M.W. Blue Ribbon Service, announced in January, works. Every owner of a B.M.W.…

Riding on rubber for 10,000 miles All cars have rubber between hubs and road, of course, except those on iron tyres, which you only see in museums. This article, however,…

We hear Geoff Duke was voted Sportsman of 1951 in a national ballot organised by the Sporting Record. Out of over 223,000 votes Duke polled 61,939, a fine indication of the present popularity…

Late Chief Engineer of Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd. One Monday morning last month, when it was more like winter than spring and snow blocked the road from Penybont to Walton and…

A Citroën "Big Fifteen" Proves a Thoroughly Satisfactory Family Car on a Hurried Excursion to the West Country and Wales Motoring journalists, when they are not being feasted sumptuously prior…

The VSCC opened its 2006 season with driving tests at Brooklands. David Marsh in his 1925 Brescia Bugatti was the best performer, but six other drivers took First Class awards,…

I did not dig deep enough into "When The Riviera Was Ours" by Patrick Howarth (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977) when I referred to it last month. It also includes, apart…

This contest was instituted by the late Laurence Pomeroy in memory of his father, who designed Vauxhall and Daimler cars of the vintage era. He gave a Rex Hays' model…

N.Z.S.C.C. Plimmerton Hill-Climb On January 31st the N.Z.S.C.C. held a hill-climb on a new half-mile course at Plimmerton, near Wellington. The surface was loose gravel and rather bumpy, while three…