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Diversity Makes The Difference
Read more: Diversity Makes The DifferenceThe standard Volkswagon Polo of 2015 vintage weighs in at 1242Kg. So, why not stick a 428 Bhp power unit into one and have some fun? That’s exactly what this bloke did. I can’t begin to imagine the torque steer generated by such massive power, but fair play to anyone…
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Goodwood does MG
Read more: Goodwood does MGYou like motorsport and you are reasonably well off but you’re not a milionaire. You like the idea of racing but you don’t have a car. You’ve looked at historics and note that there are loads of Cobra’s, GT40s, E Types and Elans, but amongst all of them, there’s an…
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When Sunday Comes
Read more: When Sunday ComesWell, the first Sunday in the month that is. This day is set aside for the Car Collective’s Leighton Buzzard Cars and Coffee morning at Jackson and Phillips’ garage in Leighton Buzzard. Always a good turn out of diverse cars and this meeting was no exception. There was the young…
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Vintage Sports Car Club Pomeroy Trophy 2024
Read more: Vintage Sports Car Club Pomeroy Trophy 2024In the late Douglas Adams’ book “The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, a super computer known as “Deep Thought” takes eons to work out the answer to life, the universe and everything. In fact it takes so long to calculate that the computer forgets the question. I suspect Douglas based…
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Shark Nosed Corvettes
Read more: Shark Nosed CorvettesI’ve been looking through some of my photographs from 2023 and inside the file for Pistons and Props at Sywell, I found one which I think, shows off the Corvette C3 in all its curvy glory. Designed by Larry Shinoda who was directed by Billy Mitchell, they’re not a car I’ve…
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It’s All About The Vehicle
Read more: It’s All About The VehicleSo, February kicked off with a trip to the Leighton Buzzard Cars and Coffee gathering organised by the Car Collective Ltd. I rarely miss this event although last month it clashed with the Bicester Scramble. My chosen ride for today was my trusty black Focus ST, although I often take my XJ-S. There’s…
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Vintage Sports Car Club New Year Tests
Read more: Vintage Sports Car Club New Year TestsA rather dull start to Sunday became a very sunny day at Brooklands in Surrey for the 2024 VSCC New Year Driving Tests. To anyone unfamiliar with the discipline, driving tests involve threading one’s way through a series of cones in the fastest possible time. Easy, until you realise that you…
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MG Car Club cancels MG Live 2024
Read more: MG Car Club cancels MG Live 2024By that time [1930] hardly anybody thought of the M.G. Car Company as builders of large well appointed and relatively expensive motor-cars. They had won fame with a bewildering array of Midgets, Magnas and Magnettes, and achieved so many successes in races, trials, rallies and record breaking…………. M.G By McComb 1978…
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Dear Diary
Read more: Dear DiaryPlanned Events January to February 2024 A quiet January is coming to an end. It started with the Bicester Scramble on 07 January and looks like ending with a trip, for me, to the VSCC New Year Driving Tests at Brooklands on 28th January. February kicks off with the Aylesbury MG…
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Back In Time
Read more: Back In TimeBefore my life became complicated by building pipelines and Energy facilities, I would often be found at a race circuit; Brands Hatch; Donington; Silverstone etc. In fact anywhere where cars were being put through their paces, I would be there, cameras in hand. Bruno Giacomelli GP De Europe 1983 – Photo:…
Once you’ve raced, you never forget it…and you never get over it.
— Richard Childress
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