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EXCESS VERBOSITY? NO, JUST VERACITY
“AUTOMOBILE BROCHURES,” R&T CLAIMED, “ARE ALMOST AS WELL ENDOWED WITH SUPERLATIVES as is the publicity for a Hollywood movie production, and about as accurate.” This and following images from...
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FATE AND AN F1 HERO
LET’S RETURN TO THE PIRELLI ALBUM OF MOTOR RACING HEROES, assembled by John Surtees, himself a Drivers’ World Champion. Pirelli Album of Motor Racing Heroes, by John Surtees, Motorbooks International,...
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A LOT OF BRITISH CARS—WITH TALES TO TELL PART 1
BACK IN 1986, THE BRIT CLASSIC & SPORTS CAR magazine published an impressive book of post-war automotive history. A-Z of Cars, 1945-1970, by Michael Sedgwick and Mark Gillies, Bay View Books,...
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A LOT OF BRITISH CARS—WITH TALES TO TELL PART 2
YESTERDAY WE SELECTED MEMORABLE BRIT CARS from Classic & Sports Car magazine’s A-Z of Cars: 1947–1970. Here in Part 2 we continue with tales of a Ginetta drive, a Jewett-enhanced job offer, Rob...
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THE PORSCHE 963 RSP PART 1
GEE, I REMEMBER ROGER PENSKE when he was a Lehigh University kid setting FTD in a Porsche RSK at Giants Despair Hillclimb in eastern Pennsylvania. That was in 1959. Penske has done a lot with cars...
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PORSCHE 963 RSP PART 2
YESTERDAY, PORSCHE INTRODUCED US to the 963 RSP (as in “Roger Searle Penske”). A cool part of the intro, described in a Porsche press release, was the drive of this road-worthy Le Mans car from...
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TRIUMPH SPORTS SIX—A MATTER OF BALANCE
R&T DECEMBER 1962 BROUGHT TECHNICALITIES TO THE FORE in its test of the Triumph Sports Six: “Many years ago,” it wrote back then, “when it was the custom to put automobile engines in semi-solid...
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CARS OF THE STARS REDUX AGAIN
THE 1934 FLICK THE GAY DIVORCEE DESERVES an award among car enthusiasts: Not only does it feature three of the era’s classic automobiles, but one of them was actually owned by one of the movie’s...
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ALFA ROMEO CORSA SPERIMENTALE “BALENA” PART 1
HERE’S YET ANOTHER REASON WHY CLASSIC & SPORTS CAR is a favorite automotive magazine: Mick Walsh’s online article about the Alfa Romeo 8C-2900B Corsa Sperimentale. Argentine enthusiasts nicknamed...
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ALFA ROMEO CORSA SPERIMENTALE “BALENA” PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, CLASSIC & SPORTS CAR’S MICK WALSH introduced us to a one-off Alfa Romeo, his article reminding me why Classic & Sports Car is a favorite motoring magazine. Today in Part...
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