Nuts & Bolts

  • Poseidon Car Wash

    Poseidon Car Wash

    Valet PRO’s new car-wash formula costs £9.99 and offers vigorous cleaning power, reducing the physical effort required to agitate dirt, while apparently leaving your classic smelling of lime. Meanwhile, the solution’s synthetic polymers leave paintwork beading, gleaming and protected.

  • New engine tonic

    New engine tonic

    STP’s Multi-Purpose Motor Treatment is designed to keep all petrol and diesel engines running at their best. The maker claims a single application delivers reduced emissions, extra engine protection and cleaning of the fuel system. A 500ml bottle costs £9.99.

  • Uprated Ford brakes

    Uprated Ford brakes

    With prices starting at £129, Tarox’s disc and pad kit for classic Fords offers a ‘bolt on’ improvement to braking without the need to change the car’s hubs or calipers. The kit offers a direct replacement to the OEM parts – but with greater power and less fade.

  • Jaguar ring socket

    Jaguar ring socket

    Laser Tools’ Jaguar ring socket is required to remove the ABS reluctor rings during front hub and suspension work on the XK (X100 1996-onwards) and XJ8 (X308 1997-’03) series cars. The ½in drive socket can tolerate the high torque settings needed and is priced at £36.12.

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Obituaries

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    Roy Winkelmann RIP

    Roy Winkelmann, the team owner who brought Jochen Rindt to the fore, has died at his adoptive home in Sarasota, Florida, surrounded by friends and ...

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    Founding editor of MotorSport dies

    Bill Boddy, the founder editor of MotorSport magazine and a leading light in the vintage car hobby for more than 80 years passed away today, 7 ...

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    Gino Valenzano RIP

    Gino Valenzano, a well-known 1950s racer and works pilot for the likes of Abarth and Lancia, has died in Turin at the age of 91. Valenzano was ...

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    Pete Lovely RIP

    American racer Pete Lovely died on 15 May aged 85. A West Coast legend, Lovely won the first ever race at Laguna Seca in 1956 and was one of the ...

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    Derek Gardner (1931-2011)

    Former Tyrrell F1 Team engineering wizard Derek Gardner passed away on 7 January, aged 79. With an aeronautics and mechanical background, Gardner ...

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    Grantura tribute to Malcolm Giles

    During the early '60s, a light-blue '61 TVR Grantura MkIIA was regularly to be seen around British race circuits, driven hard by Leslie Fryer from ...

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    Ralph Broad (1936-2010)

    The founder of the tin-top championship-winning Broadspeed team passed away in September.Broad's Minis battled the works Coopers in the British ...

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    Charles Spencer King (1925-2010)

    Former Rover stalwart Spen King passed away on 26 June, after injuries sustained when his bicycle collided with a van a couple of weeks ...

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    Donald Frey (1923-2010)

    Donald Nelson Frey passed away on 29 March. He was involved in the development of the Ford Mustang. Frey secretly met up with engineers to ...

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    Harold Beach (1913-2010)

    Harold Beach, the key engineer behind the pivotal Aston DB4, has died. After joining Aston Martin Lagonda in 1950 to develop the DB2/4, he was ...