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“In 1974, what proved to be the most resilient specialist industry?”

It’s always been a happy – and attractive – feature of anyone’s absorbing interest that it provides each of us with a comfy sanctuary from reality. Certainly that appears to be very true at the present moment with so much gloom, despondency and general mayhem in the wider world – while those within the confined motor sporting bubble just have their heads down as usual… tight-focused upon the immediate future and as always simply ‘going for it’.

Astonishingly, to me, it’s 50 years ago since in the opening months of 1974 the

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