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Sometimes the old methods are still the best...
Aluminium-skinned 1960s-style monocoque chassis structures were pretty demanding things to make – and particularly to make straight. Past Team Lotus…
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Not just a record-breaker
GET Eyston OBE, MC, was known as ‘The Record Man’, but deserves to be remembered also for his track racing…
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Book review
The Zborowski Inheritance by David Paine David says he wrote this history of the Zborowski family, from Poland in 1638…
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TT races remembered with Ards memorial
Last August a fine memorial of polished black granite weighing 1¼ tons was unveiled by the Mayor of Ards, Jim…
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Tom or 'Scrap' Thistlethwaite
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