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Matters of moment, December 1976
Fun from your fuel With the cost of everyday existence ever rising, Britain running up enormous debts, and food prices…
December 1976
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The Formula One scene
The 1976 Formula One Season (the Formula One Constructors have successfully knocked the Grand out of Prix racing!) is surely…
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Safety Devices
Roll-over protection is their business What do a works rally Escort, a Middle Eastern sheikh's Range-Rover shooting brake and all…
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Rally review - The 1977 proposals, December 1976
When the CSI succumbed to outside pressures in the late 'sixties and created what was then called the International Rally…
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Tour of Corsica
Were I ever to be asked by W.B. or D.S.J. to show them something about what present-day rallying is like,…
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An Alfa Romeo story
A reader in Australia, Mr. Earl Davey-Milne, wrote to us recently to say that he was in the process of…
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1976 Japanese Grand Prix race report: Hunt brings it home
The Formula One World Championship is nothing if not truly International and the latest country to climb onto the Grand…
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Customer without a cheque-book
An Unusual 3,000-Mile road-test of the Chrysler Alpine-S When I received from John Rowe an invitation to visit some of…
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Books for Christmas
"The World Water Speed Record" by Leo Villa and Kevin Desmond. 206 pp. 8 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in.…
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Veteran - Edwardian - Vintage, December 1976
A section devoted to old-car matters From Mr. Roger West, Production Editor of the Industrial Railway Record publications, we have…
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The VSCC Lakeland Trial
November 6th, 1976 Vintage these days are often referred to as hedges against inflation, and on November 6th some 65…
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The racing cars of W.B. Scott
Described to the Editor in a recent interview W. B. Scott (Bummer to his friends) was a regular competitor at…
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The Ferrari 308 GTB
The Dino is dead, long live Ferrari There are some games you just cannot win and it would seem that…
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Doing the Brighton Run on a 1902 Beaufort
It is the in-thing these days to do the Brighton Run for Veteran Cars, now called the RAC Commemoration Run,…
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The epitome of Super Saloons: Colin Hawker's VW-Cosworth V8
Colin Hawker is a mild-mannered young man of mechanical disposition, who earns a modest living as a mechanic in and…
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Tickled pink
Sir, Why, oh why am I, .a devoted reader of Motor Sport for the last 17 years, still waiting to…
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The true champion?
Sir, Every season of motor racing brings two world champions, though they may sometimes be the same man. The moral…
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F1 Loners
Sir, Now that all the celebrations and histrionics have abated concerning our new-found pride in the guise of a British…
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Cops in clover
Sir, Your nameless reader who wrote concerning the use by the West Mercia Police of New Rover 3500 models was,…
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Tribute to Cevert?
Sir, I am writing to see if any other reader is interested in joining me to form some sort of…
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