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Matters of Moment, September 1972
• Luxury New cars are commendably inexpensive when valued in terms of currency deflation and the prices now demanded for…
September 1972
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1972 Austrian Grand Prix race report
—A fast race Osterreichring, Zeltweg, August 13th. It is easy to forget that the permanent race-track, built on virgin soil…
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Notes on the cars in Austria, 1972
There was quite a lot of detail development work taking place during the Austrian Grand Prix practice periods, and on…
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Continental Notes, September 1972
Ferrari My practical knowledge of motor racing only goes back to 1932, but even so, the name of Enzo Ferrari…
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Recent Results
This year's Can-Am series is certainly shaping up as the most closely fought for years. Basically, that means that the…
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Fair Comment
The Letters from Readers section has already gone to press, but I do not apologise for printing this letter out…
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Around & about
Comment on the Racing and Club Scene Whither Formula 5000? One class of racing that has not been mentioned in…
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Rally of the Thousand Lakes
Non-rallying people who visit Finland invariably return to their own countries with tales of a countryside which is wild and…
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VSCC Prescott (August 13th)
Consistent Cottam Sets a New Course Record in his Connaught Prescott is a splendid setting for a speed hill-climb—in good…
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New automatic transmission
A firm by the name of Variable Kinetic Drives Ltd has sent us a most interesting brochure on a new…
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Veteran - Edwardian - Vintage, September 1972
A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters VSCC Silverstone race meeting (July 22nd) Torrential rain for practice, a slippery track for…
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Homes of the racing drivers
At the risk of being accused of taking a leaf out of Country Life and The Field it seems interesting…
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VSCC Thruxton race meeting
The last chance to see VSCC racing this year will be at Thruxton circuit near Andover on September 9th. The…
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Schneiders
Last month in a stop-press report of the MAC/VSCC Shelsley Walsh hill-climb, which precluded personal proof reading, I wrote of…
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Vintage Postbag, September 1972
Coventry Museum Sir, I very much appreciated your article on the Coventry Motor Museum (Motor Sport, July 1972). Having viewed…
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That 25/30 Maudslay
Arising out of last month's description of the 1910 25/30 Maudslay in the Coventry Museum, we have heard from Mr.…
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V-E-V Odds & Ends, September 1972
V-E-V Odds & Ends.—In last month's Fiat Rally report, a proof correction not having been made, we attributed the prize…
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John Cobb
In a speech he gave at the opening of the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, reported in last month's edition…
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Miscellanea
The last car racing likely to be held at the Crystal Palace circuit is the Aston Martin OC Daily Mirror…
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Clobber
Most cars have reasonable stowage space but some manufacturers believe that the fewer loose objects carried in a moving vehicle…
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