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Matters of moment, May 1980
A miscellany of mishaps "The answer is in the plural and they bounce" — Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, 1869-1944. Most of the…
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Silverstone Six Hours
The major British racing event of the month is the Silverstone Six Hour Race, a round of the World Championship for…
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Bulldog
Aston Martin's Boxer eater Designed to be the ultimate road-going supercar, Aston Martin's dramatic twin-turbocharged, gull-wing, mid-engined two-seater sports car, announced…
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A tribute to Stirling Moss
Life seems to be beginning again at 50 for Stirling Moss. Not only has he restarted his professional racing career…
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Stamps with a motor racing flavour
Apart from being a man with an ambition to win Le Mans, a mouthwatering collection of historic racing cars and…
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TR Register Le Mans Appeal 1980
The stalwarts of the TR Register are going all out to ensure that the Le Mans effort of the Janspeed/ADA…
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Club events
The XK Register Area 9 of the Jaguar Drivers Club will hold its Annual Spring Rally, incorporating Concours and Driving Tests,…
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The BMW Cabriolet on sale in Britain
Towards the end of last year we borrowed a BMW 323i Cabriolet from Frank Sytner, who was offering these Bauer…
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For Chevette HS 2300 read HSR 2300 . . .
The highest performance version of the Vauxhall Chevette was the twin overhead camshaft HS2300 model. This near-120 m.p.h. small car…
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A TR7 for Le Mans
The Janspeed twin turbo TR7 racing project has re-emerged in West London. ADA Engineering, who operate from an innocuous surburban…
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Ten years of the TR Register
Talking of TRs, the TR Register informs as that it is ten years since its formation and membership now stands…
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The Ford Fiesta 1.3 Ghia
An appreciation The Fiesta, Ford's World small-car, was announced in the summer of 1976 and to date over 1½-million have…
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Backing Britain
Encouraging to see Hector Monro, Minister of Sport, attending the Pace Petroleum presentation of £30,000 to Nigel Mansell in London…
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Elva Owners' Club
The newly-formed Elva Owners' Club already has forty members from Europe and the USA, with cars including Formula Juniors, Couriers,…
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"Babs" runs again
There is good news for those who enjoy watching historic documentaries on TV. The BBC is to show, later this year,…
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V-E-V miscellany, May 1980, May 1980
The March issue of Action, the magazine of the AC OC, contained an article on the supercharged AC raced by Raymond…
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The wartime diaries of an RFC Officer
Continued from the April issue We left the young Flying Officer X standing-by at Thetford aerodrome until 4 a.m. because…
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Oh dear department
There were two misprints in my article on John Walker's 1908 GP Panhard-Levassor last month. The person who bought the…
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C. A. Paul — Windsor exponent
That well-known competitor in VSCC events, Tom Threlfall, put me in touch with Cyril Paul — as this gentleman said himself,…
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Vintage postbag, May 1980
A chain-driven Mercedes Sir, Perhaps the enclosed photograph and details would make an item in your Veteran section of a…
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