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On the front line
Truck & Driver

On the front line

Our veteran driver and contributor Bob has been on the road throughout the Covid-19 outbreak. He looks back over the last few months, and further back to the Winter of Discontent in 1978/9

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10+ mins  |
July 2020
Power up
Truck & Driver

Power up

We spend a couple of weeks with Iveco’s top-spec Stralis 570XP - possibly the best kept secret on the road right now

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9 mins  |
July 2020
You're in safe hands
Truck & Driver

You're in safe hands

The way trucks are handed over to customers has had to change. Here’s what the team at Volvo did to ensure everyone stays safe

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3 mins  |
July 2020
Shooting Stars
Truck & Driver

Shooting Stars

We go behind the scenes with truck photographer Tom Cunningham to get the story behind the shoots

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9 mins  |
July 2020
Miller time!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Miller time!

CMM reader Graham Zimmatore finds a 1975 Suzuki rotary being sold by none other than Sammy Miller and restores it

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7 mins  |
June 2020
Elsies at the Park!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Elsies at the Park!

Classic Bike Trackdays and CMM, in association with Bridgestone tyres, have a weekend of fun lined up at Cadwell Park in June.

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2 mins  |
June 2020
WINTER RAFFLE WINNERS!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

WINTER RAFFLE WINNERS!

Time for some good news! We would heartily suggest you go in for the National Motorcycle Museum’s various raffles as you can win BIG!

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1 min  |
June 2020
Yamaha TX750 part 4 Fork foibles!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Yamaha TX750 part 4 Fork foibles!

Mark is checking out the forks and brakes of his latest purchase. What does he find?

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4 mins  |
June 2020
BMW R1150 GS
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

BMW R1150 GS

A real globe-trotting motorcycle that handles even Blighty’s blighted roads with ease. Check out BMW’s 1150 GS…

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2 mins  |
June 2020
The ‘C' word!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

The ‘C' word!

With the boss about to go have fun on one of Nick Crocker’s bikes (ex-Steve Hislop YZF750) at Sywell.

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4 mins  |
June 2020
Pressing Times!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Pressing Times!

Our Allen gets himself pressed into action to sort out his crankshaft.

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5 mins  |
June 2020
Crash course!
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Crash course!

With pre-testing and the opening CB500 round under their belts it was time for some schooling for our Fast Berks, a lesson via the school of hard knocks!

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7 mins  |
June 2020
Being bore-ing…
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Being bore-ing…

A tool that few people I know own is a borescope. The medical boys have used them for years and yes, I’ve suffered ‘that’ indignity before you ask!

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3 mins  |
June 2020
Coping With Covid-19
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Coping With Covid-19

The coronavirus has changed things big time – but how has our industry/hobby been coping and what’s the outlook for the future?

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4 mins  |
June 2020
Volkswagen Camper and Commercial

Back in Black

Whilst most people convert a bus into a camper, Dave O’Brien has taken a very different route, opting for a custom interior for his T5.1 based on a Caravelle.

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Issue 151
Volkswagen Camper and Commercial

Double the Fun

The Double Cab Pick Up truck joined VW’s own range of factory models in November 1958, after VW had seen the success of the double cab conversions made by Binz from 1953.

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4 mins  |
Issue 151
Feel the burn
Racecar Engineering

Feel the burn

Combustion technology has undergone a quiet revolution in the last decade. We look at the strategies employed to maximise thermal efficiency

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10+ mins  |
June 2020
VWT2OC Virtual Coffee Morning
Volkswagen Camper and Commercial

VWT2OC Virtual Coffee Morning

Virtual Coffee Morning brings people together

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1 min  |
Issue 151
Racecar Engineering

The first of the gang

It has been 20 years since Audi first won the Le Mans 24 Hours with its now iconic R8, but the development phase of the car was anything but easy

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10+ mins  |
June 2020
Racecar Engineering

Gentleman Jim

Road car, track car, race car. James Glickenhaus’ SCG 004C offers an affordable, driveable option for the customer GT racer

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10 mins  |
June 2020
Back to the Beginnings A trip to Wolfsburg
Volkswagen Camper and Commercial

Back to the Beginnings A trip to Wolfsburg

Having previously visited Wolfsburg back in 2015, then again in 2017, we loved the place and the people so much that last year Susy and I went back again, this time for three weeks!

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5 mins  |
Issue 151
Racecar Engineering

Call to arms

Never before has the world witnessed such a coming together of industry with one common cause – to defeat an enemy we cannot even see

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10+ mins  |
June 2020
Great British Camp Out for NHS staff, April 4th
Volkswagen Camper and Commercial

Great British Camp Out for NHS staff, April 4th

A virtual, stay-at-home show for charity - of course we had to be ‘there’ to report on the action.

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2 mins  |
Issue 151
Racecar Engineering

Green paint

The FIA pushed ahead a plan for a hybrid version of the entry-level single seat Formula 4 chassis and it was met with surprising success

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8 mins  |
June 2020
Panel Van Project
Volkswagen Camper and Commercial

Panel Van Project

Andrew Matthews used to spend much of his leisure time racing stock cars at weekends, but when he hung up his race suit and crash helmet in 2013, his wife Natasha suggested he needed a project to keep him amused.

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5 mins  |
Issue 151
Balancing act
Racecar Engineering

Balancing act

We round off our project on the Mk1 Escort RSR by looking at some alternative routes to that all-important downforce balance

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4 mins  |
June 2020
Volkswagen Camper and Commercial

Diary of a Dormobile

Here’s a Dormobile so original that a guided tour is tempting, but even more fascinating is the paper trail that accompanies ‘Heinrich’ the D4/6. Enter at this point the owner from new until just a few years ago.

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5 mins  |
Issue 151
Racecar Engineering

All change

Pit lane jibes at the ‘pink Mercedes’ overlook the engineering challenge Racing Point committed to when it changed from a high-rake to low-rake philosophy for 2020

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10+ mins  |
June 2020
Camper Mail
Volkswagen Camper and Commercial

Camper Mail

Your chance to share a pic, story, a tip or even a grouse!

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1 min  |
Issue 151
A Whistle Stop Tour of Europe.
Volkswagen Camper and Commercial

A Whistle Stop Tour of Europe.

Having had to leave our Bay outside Cologne due to emission zones, we took opportunity to spend the night in a hotel, catching the train to the city centre the next morning which takes you right to the Dom - the magnificent gothic cathedral that like our own St. Pauls’ stood proud amongst the burning city during the darkest days of the WW2 bombings.

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Issue 151