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1981 Dutch Grand Prix race report
Renault really win Zandvoort, August 30th It takes me a good ten minutes to walk from the pits of the Zandvoort circuit…
October 1981
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VSCC Silverstone Races
Tim Llewellyn takes Motor Sport Brooklands Trophy In return for having "July in September" Silverstone races the VSCC ran into heavy rain…
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Bristol Beaufighter
An English gentleman's very high speed sporting carriage! OWNING a Bristol is much akin to being a member of…
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Tyres!
The Concorde flight that had to be aborted during take-off due to tyre trouble — and I am sure the split-second reactions…
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Number Plates - OKV 3
The D-Type Jaguar needs no introduction for it personifies the nineteen-fifties sports-racing car, even if its competition successes were limited to…
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Kieft Sports Cars
Following the correspondence in the July and August issues, Merrick Taylor (who was closely associated with the Kieft Company in the…
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Book reviews, October 1981, October 1981
"Bugatti by Borgeson — The dynamics of mythology" by Griffith Borgeson. 223 pp, 10" x 7" (Osprey Publishing Ltd., 12-14 Long…
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Letters from readers, October 1981
BL's future Sir, Your leading article in the August issue clearly shows the agony many British car enthusiasts have been…
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