Remember when…

While Super CC was knocking seven bells out of himself trying to repatriate the batteries for Cecilia’s ICBM Missile Co. vibrator from robot Scrapman, CC’s readers were striking down with great vengeance and furious anger ‘Patriot’ from Plymouth who, in the August ’77 issue’s letters pages, dared to suggest British cars like the Lotus Elan were better than American cars like the Mustang and Camaro. Oh boy, did he ruffle some feathers.

In Intro, we brought you news that the Thrust II LSR programme had taken delivery of its Rolls-Royce Avon 21001 jet engine, with which it hoped