RENAULT ALPINE. The very name Alpine—pronounced, of course, Alpeen—suggests mountain roads and rugge
The very name Alpine—pronounced, of course, Alpeen—suggests mountain roads and rugged rallies, but this remarkable marque from Dieppe can...
MORGAN. An open two-seater body with sweeping valanced wings, running boards and a neat sloping tail
That unique English marque, Morgan of Malvern Link, earned international fame with its spritely three-wheelers for a quarter century,...
The Mc Laren M8 Series. The McLaren operation was never big, but its principals, headed by Bruce McL
The motor racing public are fickle in their outlook on monopolists. A car which enjoys a run of wins through its own merit is first...
MATRA 670. The name Matra derives from Mecanique-Aviation-Traction, a firm which made aircraft fusel
The refreshing thing about Matra was that they were so completely new to motor racing. They had no distinguished reputation or pedigree...
Maserati 300 S. Success in major races was modest for Maserati at first, but for the 21- litre Formu
"If you really want to live, drive a 250F or 300S at over nine-tenths," wrote Stirling Moss—who should certainly know—in his foreword to...
LOTUS sports racing cars. Colin Chapman and Eric Broadley achieved staggering all-round performance
Small-capacity sports car racing was enlivened and changed beyond recognition in the second half of the 1950s by a brilliant succession...
CORD. Its manner of going was smooth, silent, surprisingly quick, and it looked wonderful as it move
It must have been in 1937, in late May, because we were on our way to Indianapolis for the "500." We were in a. Plymouth, of all things,...
Chaparral. The word "chaparral" has two meanings; it is a big, leggy snakekilling bird als
Until the early 1960s, American sports-racing cars were largely follow-ons from European practice; they were thus always a year or more...
American Grafiti. The hero of the film, although originally scripted to be Steve Milner, played by
A yellow 1932 Ford, a black 1955 Chevrolet, a white 1958 Impala and a maroon 1951 Mercury: these are the unlikely stars of American...
Highway Patrol. The episodes were drawn from the highway Patrol own files and there was a technical
Do you remember when we were in a rush to get home on time to see a TV show? That TV show even today holds the title of the most famous...
