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A Spectator's Guide to 1979 British Racing
During a winter when even Formula One sponsorship stopped being the right of every team one could be forgiven for…
April 1979
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VSCC Pomeroy Trophy Competition
Silverstone, March 3rd For anyone with a real interest in cars of all ages, a study of the Pomeroy Trophy…
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Rally review , April 1979
Swedish Rally Scandinavian winters being what they are, long and cold, it's almost inconceivable that February's Swedish Rally should have…
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Inflation
When Jaguar Cars stopped making the E-type they ended the run with a batch of fifty Series III V12 cars,…
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Road test - The BMW 635CSi
A return to Munich’s old sporting coupé recipe. Good handling, fast and flexible performance, but a high price. “Near perfection”…
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1979 South African Grand Prix race report
It rained! Kyalami, March 3rd Confusion rained at Kyalami long before the Grand Prix of South Africa was due to…
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Notes on the cars at Kyalami
Lotus: The Martini Team Lotus produced a brand new car for Andretti, Lotus 79/5 (or ML 23 by the factory’s…
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Film review dept.
Cars and films are such natural companions that we ought perhaps to establish a Cars in Films column to go…
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Wrong Borough
Colin Chapman built his first car in Hornsey, not Hackney, as I stated incorrectly in my road test of the…
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Letters from Readers, April 1979
N.B. - Opinions expressed are those of our correspondents and Motor Sport does not necessarily associate itself with them. -…
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