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Matters of Moment, November 1978
Showtime Soliloquy About this time last year we remarked that you could have the Soliloquy but not the Motor Show,…
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Motor Sports Fixture List for November
* Only clubs whose secretaries furnished the necessary information prior to the 14th of the preceding month are included in…
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1978 Canadian Grand Prix race report
Villeneuve at home Montreal, October 8th One week after the United States Grand Prix took place at Watkins Glen, the…
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Gunnar Nilsson
After bravely fighting a losing battle against cancer for nearly a year, Gunnar Nilsson finally succumbed on October 20th. The…
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Motor Show Review
(NEC, October 18th) So, the Cavalcade concluded - incidentally, the Midland Motor Museum ran Wright's 1951 Frazer Nash in it…
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The Formula One Scene
The 1978 season was proving to be a jolly good one until about midway when it all started to go…
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Veteran Edwardian Vintage, November 1978
A section devoted to old-car matters The VSCC Welsh Week-End The Vintage SCC's Welsh Week-End, dating back to 1939 and…
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Vintage Postbag, November 1978
Chitty III Sir, Mention of Count Zborowski in your September issue reminds me of probably the most desirable car I…
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Fiesta Time in Mexico
"God Bless Freddie Laker!" As I write this the air-fares war which he started is spreading like a bush fire.…
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The Sporting Tyre Makers AVON:
Conservatives with a competition streak At last month's Motor Show in Birmingham Avon Tyres Ltd. had something new to show…
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Book Reviews, November 1978, November 1978
"John Cooper - Grand Prix Carpet-Bagger" by John Cooper with John Bentley. 230 pp. 9 1/2" x 7" (Haynes Publishing…
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Miniatures News, November 1978
We have received from Revell their kit for making-up a model of a 1934 Dunlop-shod Rolls-Royce Continental Gurney-Nutting Phantom II,…
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Cars In Books, November 1978
In that book by Herbert Sulzbach (the remarkable man who fought against us in the First World War and on…
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Road Impressions
The Ford Cortina 2.3-litre V6 Ghia Estate While the Editorial Rover 3500 was being equipped with a sun-roof I was…
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National Racing Review
It has been a year of development, controversy and near-peak excitement, rather than a season of out-and-out classic motor racing…
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USAC in England- Misguided?
At the beginning of October an unusual happening took place on two British circuits, at Silverstone over the weekend of…
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Formula Two Review
Giacomelli's Crown Italy has crowned its first European Formula Two champion. At Hockenheim, in Germany, on September 24th Bruno Giacomelli…
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Formula One Facets
The Gearbox The name of Mike Hewland and his engineering company are well known throughout the World for racing car…
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Rally Review, November 1978
Fiat Invincible Since last month's Rally Review was written, two events in the World Rally Championship have taken place, and…
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Around and About, November 1978
A sporting three-wheeler Believing that there might be a market for a sporting three-wheeler, on the lines of the immortal…
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