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Contents: Kodiak (Wow! Chevrolet power, German mechanicals, gullwing doors and the best of everything) Road Tests – Valves vs Vanes – Lots of Them (How to power a sports coupe? Let me count the ways: 16 valves or one turbo), BMW 325es (try three quick laps with this one; the best baby boomer biller), Renault Alliance GTA (how do you say “ragtop” in French? How do you say “zut alors” in Kenoshan?) Features – Salon: 1886 Benz (our Mr. Hill samples steel, three wheels and a seat in place of sinew, four hoofs and a saddle), The Small Success (Benz built some, Hidgon built a few and the rest is history), Toyota Roundup ’87 (a redesigned Camry, a turbocharged Supra and 4-valve heads all around(, The Road To Everest: Part II (are four doors and three main bearings man enough to conquer the world’s highest peak?), Index 1986 (from A-Alfa to V-Voltage with lots in between) Competition – Hungarian Grand Prix (Marx meets Ecclestone; and neither blinks), Austrian Grand Prix (Prost coasts home the winner, though Berger cheers the hometown crowd) Technical – Rustproofing: How To Cope (or do you want your car to rust in piece(s)) Columns – Side Glances (on cheap cigars, clocks that never worked and the radio as a friend), Going West (marketers of America, you have nothing to lose but your claims), Miscellaneous Ramblings (as reliable as houses, and even worse puns), Letter From Japan (wait! I’m confused; Is this your Mazda or my Granada?), Letter From Detroit (will the General induct European troops), Letter From Europe (Paul Frere may have discovered his favorite BMW), About The Sport (sing a song of Saab’s single-seater series), Ampersand (on a controversial master of industrial design), Technical Tidbits (ephemera, trivia and some other stuff that may even matter) Departments – People & Places, Letters to the Editor, Years Ago, Time & Place, Reviews, Market Place, Technical Correspondence, PS
Issue: December 1986
Condition: Very Good