VSCC POMEROY TROPHY CONTEST, SILVERSTONE (Feb. 28th) THIS competition, for all cars over 2-litres, designed to decide the best all-round touring car taking part, was run in cold but dry…

In which the Editor recounts his experience of the Renault Caravelle Coupe, Series IV Sunbeam Alpine and Rambler Classic 770 Pillarless Sedan If variety is the spice of life, my…

I have been delving yet again into "The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh" (Edited by Michael Davis, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1976) and find that I have missed a few motoring items…

The VSCC President Roger Collings has driven his 60hp Mercedes for at least 100,000 miles both as a road car and for every conceivable kind of competitive event with very…

The intense sporting rivalry between Cambridge and Oxford stretches beyond the Thames, Lor'ds and Twickenham. Bill Boddy remembers their car and bike battles - a veritable breeding ground for future…

Ingenious Valve Gear, Disc Front Brakes, Modern Instrumentation, Quiet Running, Excellent Suspension, 93 mph. and Sports-Car Acceleration, Comprehensive Equipment and Modest Price are features of this astonishingly good new model…

A reader has asked me if I remember H C ‘Nobby' Spero. Yes, I certainly do: I saw him racing at Brooklands. He was a regular competitor with his Austin…

Those who remember the dashing driving. cloth-cap back-to-front, of "Phi-Phi" Etancelin will be sorry to hear of the French racing-driver's death, at the age of 85. in Paris in mid-October. As…

B.M.C.'s new offering for the London Motor Show was their long-awaited ADO17 in the form of the Austin 1100, which is of the same ingenious Issigonis/Moulton layout as their Minis…

In view of the prices the older cars now fetch, it is refreshing if frustrating to think back to old times. I am thinking of a 1903/4 two-cylinder Panhard bought…

This meeting attracted an excellent crowd, remembering that the Grand Prix at Aintree was on the same day. The main event of the day was the 50-km. Boulogne Trophy race.…

The Issigonis concept of front wheels driven by a transverse engine has been seen in push-rod-o.h.v. and single-overhead-camshaft guise; and in side-valve, T-head and two-stroke versions if the historians are…