Octane August 2005
Overview
Publication Details
| Type | Magazine |
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| Publisher | Octane |
| Published date | 01/08/2005 |
| Pages | 196 |
Articles
| Page | Title | Type | Length | Options |
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| 58 | Five Speed - You’ve got about £20,000 to spend and you want something more interesting than a new hot hatch. But could you really live with a Seventies supercar? | Features | 12 |
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| 72 | Put through the Mille - In theory today’s Mille Miglia is a regularity event, run to strict speed limits. The reality is rather different, especially when you’re driving a Merc 300SL. | Features | 7 |
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| 80 | Weekend warrior - For the first time ever, you can buy a new Morgan fresh from the factory that’s ready to go racing. Mark Hales breaks his racing-Morgan duck with a Snetterton spin the the new Lightweight Roadster. | Features | 5 |
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| 86 | King of the hill - Mechanically rebuilt but otherwise unrestored, this Bugati Type 43A is the ultimate in shabby chic, and where better to drive it than Bugatti’s spiritual home in the UK, Prescott hillclimb. | Features | 5 |
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| 92 | Horch 853 - Intended to rival Mercedes-Benz’s 540K, only eight Horch 853 Special Roadsters were built - and this one took top honours at the Pebble Beach concours last year. | Features | 7 |
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| 104 | Born and Bread - When Enzo Ferrari blackballed Count Volpi, one of his best customers, the Count financed the development of a remarkable one-off-Ferrari-based Le Mans racer that gained the nickname of the ’Breadvan’. | Features | 5 |
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| 110 | Tour de France - Confessions of a rally virgin - It may only be 60bhp, but when it’s driven by Le Mans racer Nick Faure a Porsche 356 cabrio can still fo the business on the Tour Auto, If only the same were true of its navigator, Octane’s Delwyn Mallett. |
General interest | 3 |
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| 114 | Virtual racing - With historic cars and more than 50 brilliantly recreated circuits, including the old Nurburgring, the fourth edition of computer game Gran Turismo has become a must-have for car enthusiasts, young and old. | Events | 2 |
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| 122 | Tall ships - Every year the world's tallest ships race between countries, and hundreds of thousands of visitors coverage on the host ports for the magnificent sight of these great ships arriving in full sail. | General interest | 2 |
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| 128 | Buying Guide - Alfa Romeo Giuiletta & Giulia 1955-1965 - The Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint is one of the most beautiful designed and engineered compact gran Turismo machines - but their prices are surprisingly reasonable. | Features | 4 |
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