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Matters of Moment, April 1981
• "April Fool" Cars As this issue of Motor Sport is due to appear on April Fool's Day we can…
April 1981
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Motor Sport Fixture List for April
* Only clubs whose secretaries furnished the necessary information prior to the 14th of the preceding month are included in…
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Club News, April 1981
BARC The hilIclimb championship run by the British Automobile Racing Club with twelve rounds, covering the country from Scotland to…
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1981 United States West Grand Prix race report
All is well with the world Long Beach, California, March 15th The Formula One season began in all seriousness at…
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Notes on the cars at Long Beach
There was no doubt in the paddock that the 1981 season was now well under way, for all the teams…
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Audi 200 5E
W.B. described the Audi 200 5T — Audi's top-of-the-range, sumptuously equipped, turbocharged saloon — very fully in the September 1980…
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Tuning Test - Capri 3.2
mpg and speed — at quite a high purchase price Lancaster Garages, just off Lambolle Place in London's NW3 district…
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Formula One Trend of Design
Gearboxes When the fashion for putting the engine behind the driver really got under way among the special builders, the…
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Trevor Taylor remembers...
In this day and age of “big money” Grand Prix motor racing, it is difficult to imagine any driver maintaining…
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Two Top German Cars
The Editor tries the BMW 628Csi coupe and the Porsche 924 Turbo These are two makes of car for which…
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Book Reviews, April 1981, April 1981
"Turn Left — The Riffs Have Risen" by A. Cameron Gilg, 191 pp. 9" x 5 1/2" (The Royal Automobile…
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Cars In Books, April 1981
A reader has kindly lent me a copy of "Arab Command" by Major C.S. Jarvis, CMG, OBE, which Hutchinson's first…
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Veteran Edwardian Vintage, April 1981
A Section Devoted To Old-Car Matters Out Of The Past. . . . When I was exercising that enjoyable motor…
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Nothing New Under the Sun
It is rather curious that recent announcements concerning a French project to introduce a new fuel to be called "carburol"…
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Vintage Postbag, April 1981
More on Vauxhall Sir, I was interested in Mr. Adkins' references to Mr. Baldwin's "ugly Cadet". I cannot confirm that…
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V-E-V Odds and Ends
When I referred editorially last month to a veteran Benz still being in regular use into the nineteen-twenties I confess…
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Three GNs
An interview with Stafford East One of the articles which excited me very much when I was a small boy,…
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Number Plates - VMF 64
Choosing an Aston Martin registration number for this series proved to be very difficult, there were so many to choose…
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Alfa Interlude
A reflection on 20 years endeavour after a day with a T33/3 V8 sports racer On October 28th, 1951 Juan-Manuel…
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One Man's Pom
It is not often that cars ranging in age from the Edwardian period through to the present day, in character…
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