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Some MOTOR SPORT "Firsts"
WE normally dislike the sticking-outof-necks, especially ours, but on the advice of those who say you gain no credit unless…
May 1982
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By canal to Le Mans
WE have just heard about a Canal cruise from Paris to Le Mans to coincide with the 24-hour race. Anyone…
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Road impressions
The Fiat 131 Supermirafiori 2000 TC WHEN contemplating Continental makes of cars competing for large-scale sales, one comes upon the…
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Doctors needed
In the April edition of the news sheet which the RAC Motorsports Association sends out to clubs is an urgent…
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The Formula One scene
IN THE March issue of MOTOR SPORT I said that one thing about the World of Formula One was that…
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United States Grand Prix West race report
—Lauda the perfectionist Long Beach, April 4th WHEN the teams arrived in California, direct from Brazil, there being but one…
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Reflections in the dark
ALTHOUGH a Grand Prix may finish at 3 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon we seldom leave the circuit much before…
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Notes on the cars in the Americas
WHEN the teams packed up their cars and boxes of spares, tools, and equipment to go to the Brazilian Grand…
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A matter of identity
An attempt to solve a classic motor racing problem "A maze of legend has grown up about the destiny of…
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Veteran Edwardian Vintage, May 1982
A section devoted to old-car matters Motoring as it was A Look-Back to the 1920s (Continued from the April issue)…
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VSCC Welsh DTs and Trial
THIS traditional event the Edwardian and Light Can Section of the VSCC took place, in the usual form, over the…
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VSCC Wessex Trial
A COLD and mainly dry March weekend saw VSCC members assembling at Priddy in the Mendips for the first Club…
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Diesel Lagonda
Sir, Reading the (Obituaries in your March MOTOR SPORT I notice that the late Lord de Clifford, OBE, used Lagonda…
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Berthon and Mays
Sir, It isn't often I would correct Rivers Fletcher on motoring topics but I must show him the black Bag…
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Payne & Bates
Sir, I would like to put the record straight with regard to two points in your article about the Payne…
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Who knows the Loryc?
Sir, Whilst reference is frequently made in the appropriate section of your magazine to little-known and largely forgotten makes of…
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Registration details
Sir, I visited the South Yorkshire County Records Office in Sheffield and can confirm that W 332 (pictured recently in…
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V-E-V Odds & Ends, May 1982
— Although the owner of the fine Mercedes illustrated on page 289 of the March issue has not been identified,…
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The Singer Porlock
Sir, On p. 287 brief reference is made concerning the 100 ascents of Porlock Hill by a Singer Junior Sports…
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A Lanchester conundrum
Sir, I am writing to you concerning the Daimler Conundrum. By strange coincidence, one of our Australian members recently sent…
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