Sir, When I was at school in Ealing just after the war, a fellow sixth former invited me to ride…

Sir, As with many folks out there I have reached a mid-life crisis, and would like to relive some of…

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With some astonishment, I realised the other day that 40 years have gone since Jim Clark and Colin Chapman began…

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X-ray spec Keith Howard probes the secrets of the car which ended BRM's drought with Tony Rudd, the man who…

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I am not suggesting that if it had not been for Motor Sport there would never have been any motor…

When some time back TV looked at why the British Motor Corporation had failed, it came down heavily on the…

Not to be confused with cars of this name made in Switzerland and Germany, this Excelsior started in 1903 in…