On a cold New York winter evening in February 1954, Rudi Caracciola stepped stiffly from a taxi outside Le Chanteclair restaurant at 18 East 49th Street, between Fifth and Madison.…

Orwell's big bangers at Brands -- HSCC Superprix: Brands Hatch, July 23/24 The only UK appearance of the year for the Orwell Supersports Cup is one of the features of…

1958 Formula 1 Argentine Grand Prix At first it looked as though the Italian teams had stolen a march on the British Grand Prix teams, by being ready for the…

Sir, Further to your remarks concerning the vintage Bentley, TU 5987, starring in the film "The Fast Lady," this car was the property of my father, the late W. H.…

Sir, Recent advertisements issued by the authorities who advocate the wearing of seat belts contain the following statement: "Crashing at 25 m.p.h. head on into a similar car travelling at…

Sir, After reading your informative article on Pirelli tyres, I felt I must write and offer you my experiences as requested. I have driven a '75 Porsche Turbo for 18…

Another victory for Bugatti after keen duel with Alfa-Romeo By our continental correspondent For the fourth time in succession the Targa Florio, the greatest road race of the year, has…

Essex driver Johnny Herbert has been consolidating an impressive Formula 3 reputation in recent weeks. After notching up a fine third place in the prestigious Monaco Grand Prix supporting race,…

I have it fixed in my mind that the Volkswagen Golf Convertible in its one model, fuel-injected, 1,600 cc, UK market guise is known as the GTi Convertible. That would be logical,…

Sir, You may be interested to hear of the performance of a 1936 Austin 18 station wagon which this summer travelled to Greece and back, a total of 4,500 miles,…

A Market Appreciation: A selective purchaser of one of these beautiful pre-war British quality cars describes his method of finding an example at a fair price, at the same time…

750 Club They aver that all good things must come to an end, and, now that the basic petrol ration has been withdrawn, we shall get no more car-gathering 750…