SIR DENNISTOUN BURNEY
Oct 21, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS DELWYN MALLETT
to suggest Sir Dennistoun Burney saw the 1954 film , but if he had he would surely have felt a pang of sympathy when Marlon Brando delivered the immortal line: ‘I could have been a contender.’ Brando, of course, was referring to a missed opportunity to have a shot at a title fight, but Burney’s great regret was his failure to convince the British and US automobile industries that the streamlined rear-engined car was the way forward. Ironically,
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