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New cars
Another World In a world ruled by stylists and accountants, no motor manufacturer could possibly hope to wring a quarter…
January 1989
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New cars
Carrera 4: a revelation Proud of the new model as Porsche's management surely is, not quite enough emphasis was given…
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Road tests:Isuzu Piazza turbo
More dash, less cash The new Piazza Turbo, they call it optimistically. In fact, little of it is new save…
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Veteran to classic: Bentley 41/2-litre supercharged
Glamorous aberration Blower. It was a memorable tag when Bentley's race exploits filled the papers even more than Jaguar's do…
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Mercedes Benz 190E 2.5-16
Rejuvenated flagship In a record market of 2.2 million new car registrations in 1988, it was the quality car sector…
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New cars
Saab 9000 Carlsson and CDi Since his successes of nearly thirty years ago in international rallying (and particularly in the…
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Lea-Francis 1989 style
Barrie Price re-formed the Lea-Francis company in 1977, and soon revived this respected name on a new Jaguar-engined Leaf (Motor…
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VSCC Eastern Rally
On October 23 the VSCC's annual Eastern Rally map-reading event had entries ranging from Ron Barker's towering Renault 45 and…
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Moggys in Oz
We hear that Morgan three-wheelers have been doing well in Australia. Stuart Harper and Phil Spencer sent their Moggys out…
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V to C Miscellany, January 1989
Coventry's Museum of British Road Transport has been given £77,420 as a result of an appeal for funds started seven…
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Veteran to classic
Airedale tale Arising from our analysis of Dorman and Riley valvegear (Motor Sport, November 1987), we have received a very…
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Veteran to classic
Sir Alistair Miller, Mr Brooklands! If you had to choose, who would you call "Mr Brooklands"? Parry Thomas, perhaps, who…
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Postscript
Of the cars referred to above, the Viper vanished mysteriously in the 1930s but Delage II, rebuilt and re-bodied for…
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V to C Miscellany, January 1989
Entries open on January 1 for the well-established Esso Bristol-Bournemouth Run of the Yeovil CC, for which some 350 entries…
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The roads of the 1920s
We are well into 1928 in the Owen John W diaries, and he was pressing on as busily as ever.…
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Lakeland challenge
For one of the most challenging VSCC events, the Lakeland Trial, entries numbered 87 but there were seven non starters.…
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High speed
The VSCC President Roger Collings has driven his 60hp Mercedes for at least 100,000 miles both as a road car…
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Brighton Run retirements
The official results of the prolifically supported Kenco RAC Veteran Car Run show 359 starters out of 427 entries of…
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Miniature news
Ferrari feast As in every walk of life, the modelling world is fragmented into several special interest groups. On the…
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Books for the New Year
Sporting Rileys—The Forgotten Champions by David G Styles. 288pp. 91/2" x 8". (Dalton Watson plc, Russell Chambers, The Piazza, Covent…
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