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Matters of moment, February 1982
Formula One technicalities As the highly-respected mooring writer Karl Ludvigsen, Vice-President of Ford-of-Europe Inc., reminded us last month, the engine-capacity…
February 1982
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Club news, February 1982
The Vintage Motor Cycle Club The VMCC certainly takes its rightful place with the older VC, and VSCC, and the…
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The Formula One Scene
There is something of a gloom in Holland at the moment for the Dutch Grand Prix has been struck off…
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Behind the Grand Prix Scene
The circuit inspector Before anyone can hold a Formula One Grand Prix the proposed circuit must have an FIA licence…
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Historic Grand Prix Cars
The Maserati firm of the brothers Alfieri, Ernesto, Bindo and Ettore was always involved in Grand Prix racing, though they…
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Cars in books, February 1982
In “The Hall In The Field" by Margaret Evans (Hodder & Stoughton, 1978), about running an ancient manor house in…
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Alfa news
Alfa Romeo (GB) Limited seem determined, on a "do or die" course to improve their share of the UK market…
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Rally review, February 1982
In January's Motor Sport an advertisement offered for sale a car which had been made ready for the Peking to…
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Rover revisions
The SDI Rover was first introduced in 1976 to replace the by then ageing 3 ½-litre large saloon and the…
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Connaught Register
Duncan Rabagliati who has compiled a register of all 35 Connaught cars that were built between 1950 and 1957 is…
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Six months with a Mazda RX7
Despite having been with us for nearly a quarter of a century, the rotary engine is still considered by laymen…
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The MCC "Exeter" Trial
A look back Because snowstorms of record severity, combined with iced-up roads, prevailed over Southern England before the 1982 "Exeter"…
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Tuning test
Fiat Ritmo Abarth 125TC Ritmo/Strada + Abarth = 118 m.p.h. and a new production competitor January 1980: the writer huddles…
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Veteran Edwardian Vintage, February 1982
Motoring Memories North Tipperary and elsewhere, 1920 onwards The particular part of North Tipperary lies in a triangle with points…
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Fragments On Forgotten Makes No. 42
The Payne & Bates The makers of the experimental Payne & Bates cars were gas-engine manufacturers of Coventry, a company…
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Ambitious Austin 7 Diamond Jubilee Run
In conjunction with the Diamond Jubilee of the Austin 7 the 750 MC an holding an ambitious demonstration of the…
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New Year Vintage
That vintage motoring is in good heart in Herefordshire and Wales was evident on New Year's Day, when, as last…
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Roll-over bars
The Bulletin of the Riley Registe, another excellent printed Club magazine, in its issue of last December, posed the question…
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Jean Bugatti at Shelsley Walsh
May Motor Sport have the last word, after the correspondence about what happened when Jean Bugatti brought the 4.9-litre 4WD…
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Edwardian not Vintage
The whole point of the mention I made last month about a 1906 20 h.p. Rolls-Royce being rebodied in crude…
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