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VMCC FIXTURES
THE Vintage Motor Cycle Club, which now has more than 2,500 members, has two important events pending. The first round…
May 1970
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VSCC LIGHT CAR SECTION RALLY (March 21st/22nd)
THE thriving section of the Vintage SCC which encourages pre-1931 lightweights was almost coerced into staging a one-day replica of…
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HCVC BRIGHTON RUN
THIS takes place on May 3rd, starting from Battersea Park between 7.30 and 9.30 a.m. and arriving at Brighton's Madeira…
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VINTAGE POSTBAG, May 1970
Campbell's "Blue Birds" Sir, "People in glass houses," etc. ! In spite of your caustic comment, the 59.6 Vanderbilt Cup…
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THE VCC OF GB 1,000-MILE TRIAL ANNIVERSARY EVENT
TO celebrate its 40th birthday and the 70th anniversary of the historic 1,000-Mile Trial the Veteran CC is staging a…
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A CHANGE OF HEART
SOME years ago St. John Nixon, the well-known motoring historian, expressed the opinion that the earlier veteran cars are far…
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FACTORY METHODS OF THE VINTAGE ERA No. 12 : CROSSLEY
IF ANY readers have sufficiently long memories they may tell me that I have slipped up, because the Crossley was…
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RACE OF CHAMPIONS
A Dramatic Finish BRANDS HATCH, March 22nd AN unfortunate clashing of dates with the Sebring 12-hour race robbed the Race…
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ROAD TEST
Cosworth-Ford Escort Part one of a long loan assessment THOSE who read last month's editorial will be aware that we…
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CARS IN BOOKS, May 1970
A READER, Mr. J. C. Horne of Leeds, sends the following extract from "Adventurers' Paradise", by Alastair Scobie (Cassell) :…
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BOOK REVIEWS, May 1970, May 1970
"Airspeed Aircraft Since 1931", by H. A. Taylor. 206pp. 8 3/4 in. x 5 5/8 in. (Putnam & Company Ltd.,…
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RUMBLINGS, May 1970
EASTER 1970.—Last year we had quite a lot of motoring to do over Easter, in the comfort and security of…
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WHITE ELEPHANTITIS
A TALE OF TWO PANHARDS I HAD not been on Safari since 1966, when I stalked a magnificent specimen of…
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE VW-PORSCHE 914
THROUGH the courtesy of AFN Ltd. of Isleworth I was able to borrow a mid-engined VW-Porsche 914 for an enthralling…
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SPRINTING
THE recently formed Elvington Hundred Club, whose objects are to encourage short-distance record-breaking, held a practice day at Greenham Common…
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ROAD-TEST RECAP
Looking Again at the 3.3-litre Vauxhall Ventora ONE Friday evening, earlier this year, my wife and I, instead of watching…
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The Sebring 12 Hours
(March 21st/22nd) FERRARI'S DRAMATIC VICTORY AS SPRING follows winter so the Sebring 12-hour race follows the Daytona 24-hour race and…
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MOTOR SPORT/SHELL F3 Championship
SNETTERTON, March 27th MOTOR SPORT's Formula Three Championship, organised in association with Shell, could not have had a more exciting…
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TUNING TOPICS
All-Round Improvement from a Blydenstein Viva 1600 VAUXHALL'S 1,600-c.c. s.o.h.c. engine, fitted to the Viva and Victor, seems unlikely to…
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PERFORMANCE NEWS
SINCE the Ford Capri was announced the manufacturers have made sure that nearly every individual whim is catered for, straight…
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