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... certification. When initially setup Holden Motorsport had three full time staff looking after areas of responsibility that Holden's Reliability Manager and former staunch Brock supporter Ray Borrett used to have to try and cover on his own- in addition to his normal duties. Even so, Holden's motor sport department was tiny when compared with those of other manufacturers, particularly Europeans such as BMW, Fiat and Ford, or Japanese such as Toyota and Nissan. Romano Artioli Saves Bugatti There wasn't much left of Bugatti following the German occupation of World War II, and the marque faded into obscurity. That was until 1987, when Italian tycoon Romano Artioli purchased the Bugatti name and built a modernised factory in Modena. Artioli's masterpiece EB110 was a V12 supercar beast, but owed much of ...

... Aussie kids would stand in the streets, clutching miniature Union Jacks, waiting for a glimpse of the Queen. And it was much the same with the FE Holden. Flags weren't clutched and waved, but millions of heads swung when the new-look Holden drove past. When introduced the Holden FE Special cost A £1226/11 or $2453.10. Of course, Ford had the Zephyr Mark Two by about this time. It was a much nicer car than either its predecessor or its competitor, the new FE. But it won only a moderate following. Unlike the Holden it had experienced a power boost, so a Mark Two comfortably outperformed an FE and the Ford's top speed was on the high side of 135 km/h. One area ...

... . The Airscrew Company Bedson was born on the Channel Islands in 1918- and his engineering career started in 1935 with a company called The Airscrew Company, at Weybridge, making wooden propellors for Tiger Moths. After a year he went to work for a German-Austrian Jew named Robert Kronfeldt who had developed a light training aircraft. The Kronfeldt plane, using a one-litre side-valve Ford 10 motor, was used to train hundreds of civil and RAF pilots. It cut the amount of air time by one-third or more, because it was designed to give the pilot his initial training on the ground and give him all the sensations of flaps and elevators and so on by having the aircraft pivot through a centre of gravity on a V-shaped undercarriage. Then the ...

... and John Portwine in 1904, they began manufacturing basic commercial vehicles until the release of the 1908 AC Sociable. Experienced immense difficulty in the 1920's, including the founders leaving and being liquidated in 1929. Somehow managed to survive the next 30 years manufacturing a 3 wheeled invalid car, but the masterpieces were to come in the 1950's, with the release of the Ace and fearsome Ford V8 powered Cobra. AC Reviews| AC History| AC Price Guide ADAMS (1905- 1910) The first Adams car was a single cylinder, selling well from 1905 to 1910. Went on to develop some twin-cylinder models, 5 four cylinder models and even an early (1908) V8 version. The rapid development of different models placed the company under extreme financial pressure, it ...

... 1959 Year In Review So clever, it became an overnight success and instant classic. The Austin Healey 3000 features a stunningly beautiful design. It was Ford's Mustang, not Ralph Naders book 'Unsafe at Any Speed', that brought about the demise of the Corvair. Lukey takes the lead from Jones during the Australian GP for a short time, but after a terrific battle with the Cooper, Jones won by a bare 2.2 seconds. Stan Jones crosses the finish line in the 1959 Australian GP. Stan Jones after winning the 1959 Australian GP. The Issigonis Mini 1959 would herald the release of arguably Britains most influential car, Sir Alec Issigonis's revolutionary 'Mini'. Issigonis' first success story had been the Morris Minor, but few would argue that ...