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CONTENTS INCLUDE:
Monte Carlo or Bust -
Staff Selection by Anthony Hussey. The well-known member of the Connolly leather family, concours judge, and Lancia enthusiast describes his experiences at the hands of one of the worst navigators he has known - who surprisingly leads the author to consider that "If you want to have fun on a rally you should really get yourself a bad navigator".
Readers are informed that "A rally is fundamentally a battle of wits between The Organisers (alligators the lot of them), and The Navigators (bookish swots), with The Drivers (saints and highly-skilled heroes to a man) merely neurotic extensions of the car. So in theory if you have a crack navigator then you never have to drive fast".
Eric Thompson's Racing Reminiscences - Conclusion -
The year is 1952 and Lloyds broker, and amateur racing driver, Eric Thompson is now a regular driver of not only works Aston Martin sports cars but also Rodney Clarke's Formula One Connaught single-seaters. The first of Aston's famous 'Goodwood fires' is included, as is the tragedy at Le Mans in 1955 where Thompson is sharing an 'extraordinarily noisy' 1.5-litre Connaught with Kenneth McAlpine (the engine holed a piston in the 8th hour), and driving the ill-fated Lagonda V12 in '54 where he crashes the 4.5-litre car at the Esses.
The final race of his career was at the 1955 Goodwood Nine Hours (Connaught again), and on retirement from active motorsport he pursued an active career in his profession, insurance, while keeping contact with motor racing for the rest of the 1950s as Aston Martin's 'time-keeper, general factotum, and keeper of the peace'. Not easy with a team comprising Moss, Salvadori, Collins, Brooks, Parnell and Peter Walker!
One Family's Century of Motoring -
Robert Innes-Smith describes how his grandfather aquired his first horseless carriage in 1904, and despite his detestation of 'the internal combustion engine and all the devastation it has caused in the world', the various cars that have appeared in family life since then.
A Bentley's Maiden Voyage -
'Connoisseurs' Michael Campbell and Robin Widdows called in to see the Editor in a 'new' Bob Petersen 6.0-litre Vintage Bentley, finished in Campbell's favourite Ecosse Blue.
Motorbike Miscellany -
Mike Jackson's regular column discusses motorcycle trials in the mid-'50s to early '60s, the heydays of the British manufacturers BSA, Greeves, AJS, Triumph, Royal Enfield et al.
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