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Matters of Moment, November 1972
• Showtime soliloquy Another Earls Court Show is over and it is time to take stock of the motoring outlook.…
November 1972
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Continental Notes, November 1972
Porsche To the motor-racing enthusiast it is always very satisfying when a manufacturer brings out a new production model that…
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ELF Team Tyrrell
What went wrong with the 1972 Season ? With the 1972 Grand Prix season ending at Watkins Glen everyone was…
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Californian tales
The Assistant Editor is let loose in the USA California Interstate 5 joins Los Angeles and San Francisco. It is…
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Around and about, November 1972
Comment on the Racing and Club Scene Rondel F2 Car Announced Several months ago in this column we announced the…
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1972 United States Grand Prix race report
Stewart Collects the Dollars Watkins Glen, U.S.A., October 8th. Jackie Stewart completed the 1972 World Championship with one of the…
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Notes on the cars at Watkins Glen
The 31 cars in the superb Kendall Tech Centre at Watkins Glen included all 30 that had been resident at…
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Top Fiat
An Assessment of the £5,500 Type 130 Pininfarina Coupe, with overhead-camshaft V6 3.2-litre engine, automatic transmission and all the luxury…
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Tap Rally
Of all the rally financiers in this world—and there are several who keep their chosen events alive by an annual…
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Rally Review, November 1972
Rallying in Africa Although the AA of East Africa has announced with commendable, if rather obvious, diplomacy that the route…
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Tuning topics
Rallycrossing a 4WD DAF It seems that there are only two branches of our sport that offer a good chance…
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Asides about valve gear
In his excellent just-published book about MG cars, reviewed elsewhere, Wilson McComb says, quite rightly, that when the M-type MG…
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Rumblings, November 1972
• Crystal Palace.—A very successful, but rather sad, race meeting was held on the Crystal Palace circuit by the Aston…
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1972 Canadian Grand Prix race report
Stewart back on top Mosport, Canada, September 24th. Jackie Stewart and Elf-Team Tyrrell will remember 1972 as a year of…
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Notes on the Cars at Mosport Park
The Canadian Grand Prix followed only two weeks after the Italian so the majority of cars had to be transported…
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Mosport Murmurs
Denny Hulme had a few harsh words about Reutemann after the race. The Argentinian was unrepentent. He thought that Hulme…
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Volkswagen Mobile Service
Safari Motors of Aldershot, VW dealers, have put on the road a £4,000 VW 1700 c.c. van equipped to operate…
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Book reviews, November 1972, November 1972
"The Story of the MG Sports Car", by F. Wilson McComb. 206 pp. 8¾ in. x 5¼ in. (J. M.…
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Cars in Books, November 1972
Can anyone, among those who like problems of car identification, tell me the make of sporting light car seen in…
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Fiat tuners
Fiat tuners don't abound in Britain so I was very interested in two Standard House visitors who called to tell…
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