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DOUG NYE

ACK IN THE MID-1960S I WAS WITH magazine and a newly-launched stablemate named . Alongside my motor racing fixation I was an avid model maker, and at that time slot-car racing centres were just gaining a British foothold. One day my colleague Darryl Reach – editor of the new – and I drove to Clacton (yes, we got all the very best gigs) to view a brand-new slot-car centre there. I’ll never forget our arrival, the proprietor greeting us warmly and bawling over his shoulder “Maurie – put the

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