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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.…
• Showtime soliloquy Another Earls Court Show is over and it is time to take stock of the motoring outlook.…
Porsche To the motor-racing enthusiast it is always very satisfying when a manufacturer brings out a new production model that…
What went wrong with the 1972 Season ? With the 1972 Grand Prix season ending at Watkins Glen everyone was…
The Assistant Editor is let loose in the USA California Interstate 5 joins Los Angeles and San Francisco. It is…
Comment on the Racing and Club Scene Rondel F2 Car Announced Several months ago in this column we announced the…
Stewart Collects the Dollars Watkins Glen, U.S.A., October 8th. Jackie Stewart completed the 1972 World Championship with one of the…
The 31 cars in the superb Kendall Tech Centre at Watkins Glen included all 30 that had been resident at…
An Assessment of the £5,500 Type 130 Pininfarina Coupe, with overhead-camshaft V6 3.2-litre engine, automatic transmission and all the luxury…
Of all the rally financiers in this world—and there are several who keep their chosen events alive by an annual…
Rallying in Africa Although the AA of East Africa has announced with commendable, if rather obvious, diplomacy that the route…
Rallycrossing a 4WD DAF It seems that there are only two branches of our sport that offer a good chance…
In his excellent just-published book about MG cars, reviewed elsewhere, Wilson McComb says, quite rightly, that when the M-type MG…
• Crystal Palace.—A very successful, but rather sad, race meeting was held on the Crystal Palace circuit by the Aston…
Stewart back on top Mosport, Canada, September 24th. Jackie Stewart and Elf-Team Tyrrell will remember 1972 as a year of…
The Canadian Grand Prix followed only two weeks after the Italian so the majority of cars had to be transported…
Denny Hulme had a few harsh words about Reutemann after the race. The Argentinian was unrepentent. He thought that Hulme…
Safari Motors of Aldershot, VW dealers, have put on the road a £4,000 VW 1700 c.c. van equipped to operate…
"The Story of the MG Sports Car", by F. Wilson McComb. 206 pp. 8¾ in. x 5¼ in. (J. M.…
Can anyone, among those who like problems of car identification, tell me the make of sporting light car seen in…
Fiat tuners don't abound in Britain so I was very interested in two Standard House visitors who called to tell…
Most of you will know Simon Taylor as the man behind Motor Sport's 'Lunch With' series – one that has included 125 lunch-based interviews with the sport's biggest names. He first sat down…
No swearing, no donuts, no racing in the wet – has motor sport finally become completely sanitised and devoid of fun? asks James Elson
By Tony Jardine Anticipation is a wonderful thing, as it can cloud the reality when you arrive at the startline. Everything was going to plan. After three-and-a-half days of intense-but-joyous…
Cast back your mind a few decades, to bygone Formula 1 launches. The weekly press would carry photographs of such events, specialised occasions whose attendance could be measured in tens…