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In the hot seat -- Gordon Murray
From the Brabham BT44 to McLaren's F1, Gordon Murray has never forgotten about style in his car designs and the…
January 2005
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Speed, fast times, gripping stuff. Red lorry, yellow lorry?
Should have seen that coming. Giving impulse free reign, goaded into pressing on by the searing frenzy of that pure-bred…
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Track test -- Dunboyne
A decade after Dundrod was closed to cars on safety grounds, this Irish circuit was flourishing and claiming lives. Damien…
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Lights Camera Action
A Hollywood superstar with his left foot in a cast, partnered by a driver still considered a rich amateur by…
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Years of the Dragon
A strange brew of fiery Latin passion and Brit cool made Sandro Munari, iI Drago, a potent force in 1970s…
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X-ray spec -- McLaren M19
Ralph Bellamy designed this car when F1 was still a sideline for the team. He explains to Keith Howard the…
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Two pronged attack
Maserati built the best-handling sports-racers of the mid-1950s and the most powerful. But it was unable to combine both elements,…
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From home-built specials... to GT40s
There were two JWs in JW Automotive: John Wyer was its leader, but John Willment had his triumphs, too. By…
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WB miscellany, January 2005
Stutz Black Hawk: USA Among the inexpensive lookalike American cars which flooded the market in the 1920s were the vastly…
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WB Rumblings, January 2005
As an example of hard work, in 1921 The Autocar investigated 119 current cars and noted that they had, in…
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Wheel to wheel -- the month in historic motorsport
Fatality overshadows UK marathon -- LE JOG, Dec 4-7 The 10th running of the Land's End-to-John O'Groats Classic Reliability Trial…
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Service history -- Opel Kadett GTE (FWW 712T)
Plenty of miles left in an old stagerOne of the last 2-litre Kadett GTEs to enter the UK, FWW 712T…
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Inside line -- John Sinclair
Aintree Circuit Club Whose idea was it to bring racing cars back to Aintree? I was the person who thought…
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Data logger -- keep track of all the action
Tour Britannia launchedRound-Britain historic challenge aims to match Euro extravaganzas A new historic event will provide Britain with a rival…
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Hammer down
Racers that are going, going, gone... An ex-works MGC GTS with Sebring history sold for £89,000 at the Coys True…
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News in brief, January 2005
Ian Duncan, winner of the 1994 Safari Rally, is the latest driver to enter the East African Safari Classic, which…
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2004 Review -- Part One: The single-seaters
FIA Thoroughbred Grand Prix -- Gallego steals a march on old guard The TGP series boiled down to a head-to-head…
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Talk Curve -- Historic motorsport insight
Amateur dramaticsRunning an old Fl car must be financial suicide. Paul Lawrence talks to a man who reckons not Run…
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Simon Taylor's Notebook
Leftover turkey and stale mince pies or a bracing day out down at the Hatch ? No contest -- in…
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Parting Shot
Ilford Films Trophy, Brands Hatch, 1965 Jim Clark's Lotus Cortina got the drop on the Mustangs of Mike Salmon (35)…
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