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English Racing Automobiles
Fifty Years Fifty years ago Motor sport published an article in the June issue (1934), entitled "First ERA Racing Car…
September 1984
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European Touring Car Championship
The season so far: seven wins to Jaguar, two to BMW, Toyota, Rover and Volvo getting competitive. . . Ever…
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1984 German Grand Prix race report
Hockenheimring, August 5th With the opening of the new Motodrome in the Eifel Mountains, to replace the legendary Nurburgring, there was…
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Notes on the Cars in Germany
With travel and work schedules back to normal after the long trips away to the USA and Canada the teams…
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Crying Wolf!
The Formula One pit lane during testing or practice can be a very cynical place, and not without reason. You…
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BMW 323i Cabriolet
It was five years ago, in the summer of 1979, that BMW first offered the Baur cabriolet conversion on the…
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Any Sage ideas?
The accompanying photograph is of a racing car with a Sage engine, but I do not know much about the…
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Calthorpe and Alvis
— A meeting with Ian MacDonald. The other day I drove to Bath in the Peugeot 205GTi to lunch with…
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Trojans
In last month's coverage of the VSCC Jubilee it may not have been clear that the ear Miss Pat Stocken…
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Motoring as it was
A Look Back to the Roads of the 1920s Looking again at the travels of amateur motoring writer Owen John…
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Lightning Handicaps
At the VSCC Silverstone Race Meeting in July the last event was called the Four Lap Lightning Handicap. The term…
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Encounter
Leaving the office one blazing July afternoon with an appointment in Burford, I was distressed to find the traffic out…
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VSCC at Prescott
Prescott was in true garden-party mood for the VSCC speed hill-climb on August 5th. Continuing his outstanding season, David Black…
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V-E-V Miscellany, September 1984, September 1984
This year's originality prize at the motor Concours d'Elegance at the Fleet, Hampshire, Carnival (which my wife and I used…
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Explanation
In last month's report of the VSCC Silverstone races my explanation of why Neil Corner started in the Hawthorn Memorial…
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V-E-V Odds & Ends, September 1984
A neglected proof-correction made me say last month that at Wolverhampton there was a 1924 Sunbeam Dawn — in fact,…
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Pontiac Question
Sir, Last year a nephew of mine imported from Australia a Pontiac 1927, with a homemade pick-up body, and a…
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The Ford V8
Sir, Your "Ford at Brooklands" article, and especially the reference to V8 coupés being used for trials and rallies, reminded…
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Packards at Indy
Sir, You are correct about the 122" Packard team at Indy in 1923. But there was no connection between the…
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Book Reviews, September 1984, September 1984
"Lunardi", by Leslie Gardner. 191 pp. 8 3/4 in by 5 1/2 in. (Airlife Publishing Ltd, 7 St. John's Hill,…
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