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Big bangers of the sixties: Ford GT40
A late developer Conceived in 1963 as Ford's weapon against Ferrari in the sportscar field, but soon switching roles to…
April 1989
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Pomeroy trophy
Unjust comparisons The star may not have come but the show still went on. Most present felt a tinge of…
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Winter Marathon
What, no snow? If there has been one profound change in the old car business in recent times, apart from…
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Letter to readers, April 1989
Visability Dear Reader, My old chum "Titch" Allen, who founded the Vintage Motor Cycle Club back in 1946, always reckons…
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Early Trojan economics
The Trojan Owners Club has dug up that famous 1924 advertisement "Can You Afford To Walk?", which detailed the cost…
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Veteran to classic
The roads of the 1920s At the end of 1928, Owen John was commenting in his diary on a Citroen…
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Forgotten makes: No 85 Lammas-Graham
Trans-Atlantic tie-up The project of the enthusiastic Lord Avebury, who thought that an Anglo-American car based on Graham components might…
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Cyclecar days
Just before the First World War all manner of new makes were competing in the market for "motors-for-the-millions" which had…
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Saloon racing in the Fifties and Sixties
A thing of the past Back in the days when you could eat your breakfast egg without expecting to die,…
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V to C Miscellany, April 1989
We do not wish to start a sweepstake for new recruits between the various motoring organisations, but it is indicative…
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Veteran to classic
A debt repaid? In 1952 I interviewed the great Talbot designer Georges Roesch, the articles which followed (Motor Sport, November…
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Scalextric's 1989 range
New for Scalextric's slot-racing range is Gerhard Berger's Ferrari F 187, well-modeled and correctly liveried but in 1987 rather than…
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Miniatures news, April 1989
Heavy metal In recent months we have been concentrating on the budget end of the model market, with mass-produced 1/24-scale…
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Just nineteen
Before long, Renault's Douai factory will be able to turn out a Renault 19 in just 16 hours. That fact…
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New cars: Renault 19 and Ford Fiesta
Fiesta facelift A new model from a major manufacturer is big news, even when the model in question has been…
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Book reviews, April 1989, April 1989
Armstrong Siddeley — The Post-War Cars by Robert Pen Bradley. 208pp. 10" x 8". (MRP, The PiIton Estate, 46 Pidake,…
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The Porsche Driving Book
by Martin Beck-Burridge and John Lyon. 231pp. 93/4" x 7". (Porsche Cars Great Britain, Reading, Berkshire. £18.95). For 12 years,…
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Book reviews, April 1989, April 1989
Alvis — The Story Of The Red Triangle by Kenneth Day, 375pp. 10' x 8". (Haynes Publishing Group, Sparkford, Yeovil,…
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Murray Walker's Grand Prix Year, Vol 2
by Murray Walker. 144pp. 81/4 x 53/4. (First Formula Publishing, Lyon Road, Wimbledon, SW19 2SE. £6.50). Cheapest of the Grand…
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Supercars - The Myth and the Magic
by David Vivian. 128pp. 101/2" x 9". (Osprey, 59 Grosvenor Street, London W1X 9DA. £9.95) Don't imagine that this is…
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