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1984 Detroit Grand Prix race report
Nelson Piquet displayed the sort of unruffled superiority that has helped him win two World championships when he triumphed in…
August 1984
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Book reviews, August 1984, August 1984
"Audi Quattro — the development & competition history" by Jeremy Walton. 267 pp. 10 in 6½ in (Haynes Publishing Group,…
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Cars in Books, August 1984
What have we this month, for this column, which the Editor of a motoring weekly once said was a good…
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The VSCC Jubilee
The Vintage SCC's Jubilee celebrations (see Editorial) were happily informal yet they must have done immense good for the whole…
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Rally Review, August 1984
Sanyo Rally of New Zealand A crucial win The importance that New Zealand had in this year's World Rally Championship…
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Jones Jumps Marriner Moves;
Big, bluff, curly-haired Bernie Marriner has been with Ford SA's Competitions Department at Port Elizabeth for so many years that…
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The Other Cars of Brian Lister
"In the fifties," says Brian Lister, "you still had two distinct types of successful racing car designers. There were the…
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1984 British Grand Prix race report - A four-ring circus
A four-ring circus After the Demolition Derbies in Detroit and Dallas the Formula One "circus" must have breathed a sigh…
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Renault Turbo 2
Road Test We have the FIA to thank for the current rash of homologation specials. The recent alteration of minimum…
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Corrections
W.B. says he is well aware that Peter Morley is the owner and driver of the Bentley-Napier in VSCC events…
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A recent competition held over a standard kilometre at North Weald aerodrome, may settle some arguments as to which is…
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Grand Prix Vignettes
Radio contact: The use of short-wave radio contact between the cockpit of a racing car and the pits has been…
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The Impact of the Phantoms
Veteran Edwardian Vintage When they married and gave in marriage, They danced at the County Ball, And some of them…
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A Vanished Special
In the period of motoring development which we now refer to as the vintage years special-building was more common than…
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Ford at Brooklands
Not Henry Ford but the Ford Motor Co of Great Britain, although the legendary Henry himself did visit the famous…
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Shockers at Indianapolis
The other day a net dropped on my desk telling me that the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race has been won…
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STD Wolverhampton Rally
On July 1st the STD Register held another Wolverhampton Rally, taking Coatalen Sunbeams back to their birthplace, following an idea…
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AIR
It is an indication of the risks incurred by the older breed of test-pilots that in his "Adventure with Fate".…
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A Morgan Memory
This year being the 75th Anniversary of the Morgan, all manner of memories of the car that started life as…
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Koni
On page 974 we refer to the success of Monroe shock-absorbers in the 500 Mile Race at Indianapolis. It is…
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