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Road Impressions
Mazda RX7 Why there are not more RX7s on Britain’s roads is a mystery. This year Mazda expect to sell…
April 1984
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A Veteran Car Enthusiast
The Editor Visits Edgar Pilkington -- The other day I had the pleasure of talking to Edgar Pilkington, whose special…
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The Volvo 360GLS
Many, many years ago I went to Sweden to see how Volvo and Saab cars were made. I was extremely…
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Avon Tyres in Racing
The Avon Tyre Co which is doing very well, is to take a new involvement in competition affairs, exporting over…
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News of New Books
On the motor book front we look forward to D.S.J.'s epic on all AFN activities, due from PSL in September,…
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Over to the Accountants....
We do not profess to be experts on the matter of the prevailing profits made on the sale of cars…
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Cars in Books, April 1984
A reader has drawn my attention to some very interesting and unexpected references to motoring in the Ralph Richardson biography.…
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City Racing
Those who hope for a “round-the-houses” race through the streets of Birmingham, a British Monaco, as it were, are still…
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South Africa Testing
The Kyalami circuit in March provided the last opportunity of testing before the season started at Rio. New to the…
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Fitzpatrick Racing:
from driver to owner “If I don’t drive any more, at least I can say I went out on a…
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Portugal Rally
Master tactician Walter Röhrl went out of his way to ensure that Audi team-mate Hannu Mikkola won in Portugal after…
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Treser Quattro
-- A pricey package that puts Audi’s 4-wd model into a new category The British market has been a happy…
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TWR Jaguars XJS: Walkinshaw's Coventry Express
As John Egan remarked to us at the Geneva Show, racing is part of Jaguar’s heritage. A carefully planned European…
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Arab Valve Gear
A Reid Railton Cameo When I wrote briefly of Brian Demaus’ rare 1926 Arab sports car in the December issue…
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Out of the Past, April 1984
At the VSCC Goodwood DTs that great enthusiast Monica Whincop, arriving as a Passenger in an Aston Martin instead of…
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The Chicken or the Egg?
In the March issue I took Griffith Borgeson to task for querying without convincing evidence whether the FWD Alvis of…
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Culled From An Advertisement
Years ago the weekly motor papers sometimes helped fill their pages by culling news items from the advertisements. We have…
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V-E-V Miscellany., April 1984, April 1984
The AGM of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club takes place at Bristol on April 29th. The Morgan Three-Wheeler Club, which…
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O.J.'s Sport Fiat
Replying to the query we set them in January, the Fiat Register considers that the rather odd sports Fiat which…
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V-E-V Odds & Ends, April 1984
A 1928 Stutz that was turned into a breakdown truck in 1939 after it had run only 35,000 miles, and…
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