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An American at Le Mans
1929 was a good year for the American auto industry. And it was a good year for the Du Pont…
February 1994
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Speedster - Le Mans Model – Specifications
Motor—L-head type —eight cylinders, cam en bloc, detachable head, bore 3-3/8", stroke 4-1/4", S A E rating-36.45 hp, Piston displacement…
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GB Napiers at Castle Rheban
Bob Montgomery of Co Meath, motoring journalist and former saloon-car champion, is writing a book about the 1903 Irish Gordon…
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A whiff of old Brooklands
The Young Special When a respected monthly motoring contemporary published a picture of Tom Walker's Young Special at the VSCC…
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On top gear
Motor Sport receives a great many letters from readers, and some of the fun of writing the historical part of…
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Penrite LE JoG
Quite like old times — I went out on the night of December 4 to see the cars in the…
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New Year at Adstock
The VSCC meeting at The Old Thatched Inn at Adstock near Buckingham on New Year's Day was the largest ever,…
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Winter Verzons
It has been said that pleasure follows pain. On New Year's Day this was true for those who drove to…
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VSCC Enstone tests
The VSCC concluded a full and successful season on December 4 with its traditional driving-tests at Enstone airfield near Chipping…
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V-C miscellany, February 1994
In 1976 Tate & Lyle, the well-known sugar refiners, loaned their 1914 brass-radiator Model-T Ford tourer, an early example of…
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"Bess"
I made reacquaintance in December with that unique Bugatti "Black Bess". A quite remarkable Edwardian, able, as I observed, to…
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Farce
After the destruction of a Ford Mondeo by Nigel Mansell at Donington Park last year I suppose all future good…
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Test pilot
The ever-interesting Aeroplane Monthly published a dramatic picture in its January issue of Flt Lt E R C Scholfield standing…
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Indycar.
by Kris Perkins. Osprey, £9.99. Now take a wild guess who is featured on the front cover? Commercially, this was…
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The BRM Collection, Vols I & II
Terrific Stuff Videos. 50 mins & £17.99 each Footage of the first six years of BRM, originally a series of…
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Les automobiles de Besançon 1900-1930
by Marc Douazy. d'Ollandon/Raymond Bernier. This is an unusual but excellent book about the automobiles and races that originated in…
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Lawrie Bond — The man & the marque
by Nick Wotherspoon. Bookmarque Publishing, £18.95. Here is something rather special — a copiously illustrated history of the remarkable Lawrie…
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Gatso
Gatso –– The Never Ending Race, by Michael Allen with Maurice Gatsonides, Rob Wiedenhoff & Piet Philippa. There can be…
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Lola T70
Lola T70 –– The Racing History & Individual Chassis Record, by John Starkey. Veloce Publishing PLC, £40. The Lola T70…
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The Avon Tour of Britain, Oulton Park, 1973
Production Car Racing 1973–1975, The Avon Tour of Britain. PP Video. 60 mins, £12.99. "This is a blueprint for the…
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