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Petrol Problems
The rich petroleum industry, automatically associated with tough 'oil barons' in the Ewing image, palatial office premises, and understandable jealousy…
August 1990
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Club News, August 1990
The Vintage SCC holds its annual speed hill-climb at the Bugatti OC's Prescott course near Cheltenham on August 5th, the…
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Mexican Magic
Motor racing broke out in Mexico at the Grand Prix weekend, and now I begin to realise just why those…
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1990 French Grand Prix: A Touch of the Sun
Once you get south of somewhere like Avignon it can start getting very hot and the sun can get insidious,…
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Sound & Noise
Dear Reader Sound is something you can make yourself, and if you do it is usually acceptable to you, or…
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1990 British Grand Prix race report - Decline and Fall
Hard enough to get to the top of any activity, especially Grand Prix racing, but it is even harder to…
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A Rarity
Last month brief mention was made of a demonstration run by 'Mike Sparken' in a Tipo 158/159 Alfa Romeo at…
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First or second class championship?
FISA's World Motorsports Council decided, at the end of June, to kick the current 'unlimited' Group C cars into an…
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Jaguar Plans
The effective career of Jaguar's stock-block, V12 powered Group C racing cars may now be on the wane, but the…
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Sainz's Antipodean Win
When Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya scored their first win World Championship victory by winning the Acropolis Rally in June,…
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First Past the Post
Crunch! Déja vu. A track test of a Formula First wouldn't be complete without a good hard shunt to write…
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Flawed when Floored
RS turbo — Fraught — Ford — Fast; a genuine 130 mph shopping trolley, but fraught. Those were our principle…
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Living in Clover
Last month I said that the new Alfa Romeo 33 gave one the four-wheeled equivalent of the motorcycling condition known…
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Audi V8
It is many years since Audi had a presence in the luxury car sector. One has to go back to…
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Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4
The 3000GT VR-4, successor to the Starion, and probably to be called that when it reaches these shores over 18…
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A Good Investment?
If Brodie Brittain Racing (BBR) is known at all, it is because of its involvement with motor racing over the…
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The Mini Marathon
It may only be three years old, but the Pirelli Classic Marathon has made such an impact on historic motor…
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Waiting in the Wings
Well, it had to happen. Sooner or later. A rather tragic side emerged to this year's re-evocation of the world's…
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The Right Crowd and No Crowding
A jovial gathering of like-minded enthusiasts converged on the historic Brooklands circuit on July 1st for the 23rd Annual Reunion…
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STD Anniversary
Forty years ago Mrs WB started the Sunbeam Register (owning then a 1927 Sunbeam 16 tourer, the opening rally being…
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