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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,…
Showtime Soliloquy About this time last year we remarked that you could have the Soliloquy but not the Motor Show,…
* Only clubs whose secretaries furnished the necessary information prior to the 14th of the preceding month are included in…
Villeneuve at home Montreal, October 8th One week after the United States Grand Prix took place at Watkins Glen, the…
After bravely fighting a losing battle against cancer for nearly a year, Gunnar Nilsson finally succumbed on October 20th. The…
(NEC, October 18th) So, the Cavalcade concluded - incidentally, the Midland Motor Museum ran Wright's 1951 Frazer Nash in it…
The 1978 season was proving to be a jolly good one until about midway when it all started to go…
A section devoted to old-car matters The VSCC Welsh Week-End The Vintage SCC's Welsh Week-End, dating back to 1939 and…
Chitty III Sir, Mention of Count Zborowski in your September issue reminds me of probably the most desirable car I…
"God Bless Freddie Laker!" As I write this the air-fares war which he started is spreading like a bush fire.…
Conservatives with a competition streak At last month's Motor Show in Birmingham Avon Tyres Ltd. had something new to show…
"John Cooper - Grand Prix Carpet-Bagger" by John Cooper with John Bentley. 230 pp. 9 1/2" x 7" (Haynes Publishing…
We have received from Revell their kit for making-up a model of a 1934 Dunlop-shod Rolls-Royce Continental Gurney-Nutting Phantom II,…
In that book by Herbert Sulzbach (the remarkable man who fought against us in the First World War and on…
The Ford Cortina 2.3-litre V6 Ghia Estate While the Editorial Rover 3500 was being equipped with a sun-roof I was…
It has been a year of development, controversy and near-peak excitement, rather than a season of out-and-out classic motor racing…
At the beginning of October an unusual happening took place on two British circuits, at Silverstone over the weekend of…
Giacomelli's Crown Italy has crowned its first European Formula Two champion. At Hockenheim, in Germany, on September 24th Bruno Giacomelli…
The Gearbox The name of Mike Hewland and his engineering company are well known throughout the World for racing car…
Fiat Invincible Since last month's Rally Review was written, two events in the World Rally Championship have taken place, and…
A sporting three-wheeler Believing that there might be a market for a sporting three-wheeler, on the lines of the immortal…
Max Verstappen and Lando Norris teamed up to win the virtual Spa 24 hours for sim racing's Team Redline PRT. The younger generation: Lando Norris and Max Verstappen won as team-mates in the…
In motor sport terms, most top drivers are monogamous creatures – same car, same team, race after race, ’til death – or, more likely, a new contract – do them…
“Just what an old man needs.” Mario Andretti, then 38, was referring to his Lotus 79 after dominating the 1978 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder: on pole by eight-tenths, he…
After qualifying, McLaren looked to be on the back foot. Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen had qualified third and fourth, which was hardly a disgrace in itself, but one and…