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Grand Prix Feature: Jacques Laffite
Two recent stories give an accurate indication of Jacques Laffite's true character. Over the years, Williams team de-briefing sessions have gained…
September 1983
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Road test: The excellent Lotus Excel
The Lotus company is almost constantly in the news, its fortunes see-sawing alarmingly over the past couple of years. Towards the…
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Classic car: Austin Healey 3000 —
The stuff of which dreams are made? The trouble with nostalgia is that it tends to blind people to the…
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Panther Cars —
A small company with a big future "I know what people say about the Kallista . . it looks like a…
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Book Reviews, September 1983, September 1983
"Ferrari four-seaters" by David Owen. 134 pp, 81/2" x 7". "Saab turbo" by Graham Robson. 135pp, 81/2" x 7". "Mercedes Benz 300SL"…
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VSCC Colerne
VSCC Colerne THE annual speed trial over a standing-start kilometre, with times for the quarter-mile and kilometre and speed over…
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Cars In Books, September 1983
Cars In Books I WAS INTERESTED to find in one of the books by the Rt. Hon. J. E. B.…
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Veteran Edwardian Vintage, September 1983
A section devoted to old car matters The 25/50 hp Talbot The Talbot, as a make, has a complex ring…
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Day-Trip to Dieppe
Until the end of 1907 the Grands Prix held in France, Germany and Italy were each held under different regulations…
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Rare Encounters
There is no doubt that on the quieter, less-congested roads that existed in this country in the 1920s many unusual…
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Fragments on Forgotten Makes No. 66: The Jackson
The other day I drove in the Sierra XR4i to haunts I knew so well years ago when schoolboy visits were paid…
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Old No 1 Bentley
Sir, I was most interested to read your comments in Random Reflections Motor Sport July 1983 concerning the Woolf Barnato 8-litre coupe.…
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Those ill-fated Vauxhalls
Sir, I was very interested to read the article in the August issue about the 1914 and 1922 TT Vauxhalls because…
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A German rust-bug?
Sir, Heavily influenced by Motor Sport (advertisers take note) I purchased a 911SC Targa Sport and a Golf GTi two years ago.…
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Tracing old circuits
Sir, The news of the demise of Nurburgring fills one with sadness. It joins the other true road circuits in…
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Up and over
Sir, Further to your piece about test hills, you might be interested to know of the test hill that was…
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The NMM replies
Sir, Mr Nigel Stuart's letter to Motor Sport, July, referring to the facilities for the disabled at Beaulieu seems a little…
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An early Lotus
Sir, My son and I are restoring a Series 1 Lotus XI and seek your help in pinning down the car…
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