A 50th birthday is something to forget rather than to celebrate, where humans are concerned. With cars, historic racing cars in particular, it is different. But it was exceedingly generous…

[Described to the Editor in a recent interview] Even the younger generation should have heard of CEC Martin, that versatile and capable British amateur driver, who drove in the Continental Grands Prix…

Continued from the July issue  We left X, as I am referring to this 1914/18-war soldier turned Flying Officer, after he had disposed of the 1911 40/50 hp Rolls Royce tourer…

A section devoted to old-car matters  More about vintage motoring in Wales Last year I had something to say about motoring in the 1920s on the roads and lanes of remotest Radnorshire. Recently I…

A 1906 Nordenfelt with a 30 hp Barriquand et Marne engine and a Darracq front axle has been found in a shed in Ulster and the intention is to restore…

The Talbot Solara SX The first of the range of cars now known as Talbots (but far-removed from my 1922 Talbot-Darracq and the Talbot-Lagos which we used to call Lago-Talbots when they…

Volvo 244 GLT  Twenty years ago, when Volvo and Saab were less well-established here, I went to Sweden for a week, so that we could publish stories in Motor Sport about how these…

The first entirely new Auto-Union/D.K.W. model to be announced since Daimler-Benz took over this company, the D.K.W. F12, as we forecast last month, retains the traditional 3-cylinder 2-stroke engine. Indeed,…

Motor Sport  and the Brooklands Society originated the post-war return of Brooklands personalities to the old Track which had unfortunately failed to survive the war as a race course, and…

Full circle with FIAT? " ... the phrase, 'the racing-car is the touring-car of tomorrow', is none of my coinage . .. I, however, concur in it" - Louis Coatalen, 1924. …

"The Complete Encyclopaedia of Motorcars-1885-1968". Edited by G. N. Georgano. 640 pp. 11¼ in. x 8¾ in. (Michael Joseph Ltd., 26, Bloomsbury Street, London, W.C.1. 126s.) This enormous work of…

That well-known competitor in VSCC events, Tom Threlfall, put me in touch with Cyril Paul — as this gentleman said himself, "not the Cyril Paul who did the real racing," but…