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Road test: Porsche Carrera 911 CS
Back to basics Is there such a thing as anti-option list? Porsche's new lightweight 911 Club Sport boasts a catalogue…
April 1988
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Veteran to classic
The roads of the 1920s In 1927, at a time when the 21hp six-cylinder Delage saloon (the 3-litre descendant of…
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The Things They Say
"The reason motor racing did not matter (in Britain, in the I950s) is encapsulated in one word, Brooklands . .…
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Weston Park Line-Up
An impressive line-up of cars outside the Earl of Bradford's house at the preview of the Midland Festival of Transport…
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Australian run
Part of the celebration for the country's 200th Bicentennial Castrol World Rally, organised by FIVA and the VCC of A,…
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Shuttleworth Pageant
It is sixty years since the well-known pre-war racing driver Richard Shuttleworth bought his first veteran car, the Panhard-Levassor which…
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Forgotten makes, No 81: The Fast
The Italian job Some time back I wrote of the SLIM car, suggesting that it must have appealed to those…
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Starting up
It would be somewhat misleading to suggest that veteran and even vintage cars were all easy starters. Indeed, in the…
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V to C miscellany, April 1988
For this year's STD Register Wolverhampton Rally (the first one-make rally to visit the birthplace of the cars which fostered…
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A loud clanger!
Last month's Donald Healey appreciation correctly said he was a successful Monte Carlo Rally competitor in Invicta and Triumph cars,…
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Third Encounter
Besides the Annual Reunion on June 19 and an autumn meeting on September 11, the Brooklands Society has arranged a…
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Wheels of misfortune -- The rise and fall of the British Motor Industry
by Jonathan Wood. 91/2" x 61/2" . 250pp. (SidgwIck and Jackson Ltd, 1 Tavistock Chambers, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2SG.…
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Rallycourse
edited by Mike Greasley. 121/2"x91/2" I76pp. (Haselton Publishing, 3 Richmond Hill, Richmond, Surrey TW10 6RE, £19.95.) For as near as…
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Video: Year of the Cat
produced by Videovision Broadcast. 60 minutes. (Duke Marketing Ltd, PO Box 46, Douglas, Isle of Man. £29.90). Jaguar's return to…
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Rolls-Royce -- The classic elegance
by Lawrence Dalton. 328pp. 91/2'' x 81/4" (Dalton Watson, 21 Brook Mews North, London W2 3BW, £39.95). Dalton Watson has…
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A bit behind the times
by Kenneth Neve. I76pp. 81/4" 51/4". (Grenville Publishing Co, Standard House, Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4DA. £7.95 plus 55p UK…
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Scalextric revival
It is good news that improved Scalextric model race-tracks, cars and accessories are part of the Hornby revival. Hornby's publicity…
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Distant View
Sir, It is difficult for me from this distance to enter the debate as to whether the recently-discovered three-litre Bentley…
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2600 in 1988
Sir, A damp weekend has been transformed by the magnificent article on the Alfa Romeo 2600 (Motor Sport, March 1988).…
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The VSCC replies
Sir , Last month's leading article on the Motor Sport Brooklands Memorial Trophy has once again highlighted the problem of…
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