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The things they picture
I have no reason to doubt that the new Nissan Micra is an excellent little car. But I have not…
February 1993
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Design defect
In the rather Arctic weather which much of England experienced over the Christmas and New Year break, a design or…
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Amateur sport
Amateur, or should I say semi-professional, motoring sport forms a large part of the overall sprint and racing scene, of…
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A JCC innovation
The long-since-defunct Junior Car Club (it is now the BARC) was nothing if not innovative. Having shaken off the limitations…
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V-to-C miscellany, February 1993, February 1993
The Vintage Sports-Car Club has announced a very full fixture-list for 1993. Its events open to non-members as spectators include…
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The Comet
It is understandable that, after a considerable period of time, even cars that had a reasonable production-run should be forgotten…
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V-to-C miscellany, February 1993, February 1993
A well restored Mercedes-Benz 500K 5-litre, straight-eight supercharged roadster, thought to have been the car owned by Sir Ronald Gunter,…
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Air - The other Courtenay
Following the lifestyle of this other Courtenay evokes more memories of flying as it used to be. The pilot I…
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Home sweet home
One of only 19 Zagato-bodied Aston Martin DB4 GTs ever to have been built recently returned to England, after a…
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Vintagery at The Verzons
Vintage-car drivers apparently regard bad weather as a challenge, because more than one hundred pre-war cars turned up on New…
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From long ago
An interview with Viscount Massereene in a back issue of The Spectator that I picked up recently caught my eye,…
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V-to-C Miscellany, February 1993, February 1993
Two more fixtures: The Lea-Francis OC will be holding its annual rally at Stanford Hall again this year, on June…
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Flattery
(Nearly) forty years on, when afar and asunder... We at Motor Sport are flattered to learn, from the BRDC Bulletin,…
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MCC Exeter
The MCC, one of the longestestablished of all our motor clubs, continues to obtain marvellous entry lists for its classic…
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VSCC Enstone Awards
The results of the VSCC December driving-test meeting, which we reported last month, were not available by press day. For…
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Birkin Memorial Rally
1993 is the 60th anniversary of the death of Sir Henry Birkin, and to mark it the Federation of the…
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Vintage postbag, February 1993
Bequet Finds Sir, Please find enclosed a most interesting photo which I have received from France only recently, showing the…
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Reviews, February 1993
An Album of Sentinel Works Photographs, by Anthony R and Joseph L Thomas. Woodpecker Publications, £15.95. Those readers who are…
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Readers' letters, February 1993, February 1993
Water margins Sir, We were delighted to read December's Delirium Tremens and congratulate you upon an excellent article and for…
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