It depends which Nelson you mean – and which Victory. In Portsmouth, there once was a station called Radio Victory,...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like...
As I write this column in late April, the mass media is full of stories about Ayrton Senna. I must be the only person who saw Senna’s early races not to have grasped that I was seeing greatness in formation, but I didn’t. It’s amazing how stories get changed in...
One of my favorite automotive books is Doug Nye’s “Motor Racing Mavericks”. Published in 1975, it explores failures—high-end failures—in Grand...
This year is the 60th anniversary of the Morris Mini-Minor and Austin Se7en, and the Goodwood Revival will feature some examples once owned by stars of the period, including the odd Beatle. The Mini was praised for being egalitarian, which fitted the mood of the time when social barriers were...
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall; Who is the fastest of them all?” Many are the racing drivers, fast and slow, who would like to answer “Me” to that question. Unfortunately, with few exceptions, the response to that has to be “No, it isn’t you.” Howden Ganley I usually try to...
In 2007 I attended the Press Day prior to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. You can be a passenger in...
Mike Lawrence Recently, I was contacted by a chap in New Jersey who labored under the impression that I know much more than I do. He had bought an MZ 850 single-seater and wanted to know more. Not only had I not heard of the make, I had no knowledge...
Wales is not a country one readily associates with Formula One, but in September, a small group gathered to celebrate...
One of the things to particularly love about ladies, is their ability to “multi-task,” something most men are not very...
Anyone who has studied literature will know about footnotes and the glossary of terms because the language is constantly changing....
At one of the Goodwood Revival meetings, I was chatting with Rob Wilson, racing driver, bass guitarist and Kiwi, not necessarily in that order. Soon, we were joined by Howden Ganley. Then Eoin Young and our mutual pal from New Zealand, Michael Clarke, appeared. As far as the eye could...
Aston Martin has announced a collaboration with revived motorcycle company, Brough Superior, to make the AMB001, a limited edition track-only...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising...
The Lister Motor Company has made “continuation” examples of the “Knobbly” Lister-Jaguar. An auction house has claimed that a car it was selling was the prototype Knobbly, so the Knobbly has become important. After the Knobbly came the Costin, but before the Knobbly there were three Lister-Jaguars best described as...
On a bleak day in November 1983, I was at Silverstone. Ken Tyrrell had promised a test drive to the...
Porsche is one of those marques about which I feel ambivalence. Unless the six numbers click into place on the...
