Motor Sport Magazine

LETTERS

What a great picture of Tom Walkinshaw in the Pentax Cameras BMW 530i at the British Grand Prix support race in July 1978 at Brands Hatch, shown in Parting Shot [January].

I thought you might be interested to know that this car is now owned by my family and I. We were fortunate to have found this car due to talking to Jack Tetley at Duncan Hamilton. They knew the owner in Connecticut, USA and we managed to come up with a deal and secure the purchase of the car and return it to the UK.

We have been preparing it to hopefully race later in the year alongside our other

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