Vol VIII, No. 4 St Louis Sports Car Council April 2019

Council News & Notes Up & Coming nd  There’s been a decline in the mid 12 Apr 19—Misfit Toyz Car, Truck & Bike Cruise, 2 Friday -month event alerts the past cou- each month, April through October, 6-10 PM. At Hardees, 2580 ple of months and for that we Lemay Ferry Rd, St Louis. apologize. We’ve had a series of 12 Apr 19—First Kirkwood Sonic Car Cruise of the season, at events here at StLSCC Central Big Bend and S Kirkwood, every Friday night through the end of Sep-

including an auto accident (other FUSE! SHORT tember. Tends toward muscle cars and rods but foreign vehicles are welcome! driver’s fault; fortunately no inju- ries in either car) so things have 12-14 Apr 19—“Luau in the Lou!” SCCA Midwest Division majors club been a tad hectic. racing with time trials, hosted by the St Louis Region, SCCA. At Gateway Motorsports Park, details to follow. In the meantime, monitor https://  BUT, spring has arrived and roadracing.stlscca.org. here’s your April issue of the th Gateway Relay. As this issue 13 Apr 19—St Louis Triumph Owners Association Missouri Meerschaum 150 goes to press, both the Boeing Anniversary Drive. Meet at the I-64/MO 94 commuter lot at 9 AM for a scenic Sports Car Club and Sports Car drive to Washington via the Daniel Boone Home, Femme Osage and Dutzow. In Club of America autocross sea- Washington, we’ll participate in some of the 150th anniversary activities for the leg- sons have started (see featured endary pipe manufacturer, followed by lunch at Marquart’s Landing on the river- events), with the Gateway and front. For more information, contact Stephen Paur at (314)308-2564 or Karl MisFit Toys series on the way. Schmitt at (636)797-4203. Cars & Coffee/Westport’s first event is one week away; thanks 13 Apr 19—First Cars & Coffee/Fast Lane Classic Cars, 427 Little Hills Industri- to the organization’s upgraded al Blvd, St Charles. Hosted by Fast Lane, C&C St Louis, the Bridge Coffee Nouse web page, you’ll be able to easily and the Dokaj Foundation, 8 AM-10 AM. Info at https://calendar.time.ly/xzi1q8ed/ track multiple events through the posterboard. season. And, of course, most of 13 Apr 19—Annual Meridian Village Car Show, #27 Auerbach Place, Glen Car- the cruises are now up and run- bon, IL. Registration 10 AM-noon, dash plaques to the first 50 cars, trophies voted ning for another year. by the residents. Food sales proceeds and entry fee go to the Lutheran Senior  As with previous years, we’ll Services Benevolent Fund. For info, email Tammy Williams at tam- attempt to get the staff photogra- [email protected]. pher out for as many member 15 Apr 19—MG Club of St Louis Tech Session, at Brooklands Restoration, 9532 club events as possible, but we Lackland Rd, Overland, 7 PM. Topic is steering and electrical. do appreciate photos and brief summaries of club events we 18 Apr 19—MG Club of St Louis monthly RUBCO breakfast, at the Egg & I, 11692 can’t make. If you have a driving Manchester Rd, 9:30 AM. or competitive event and desire photo coverage, as always, just drop us a line (eLine?). (Continued on page 2)  Drive em!

Note: Some club events restrict participation to club members only, primarily for na- tional/chapter insurance reasons. If interested in joining in on a drive or other event, we recommend you contact the club’s event coordinator in advance for details. In Print Periodically, the editorial staff of Thoroughbred & Classic Cars write about the cars they’d love to have. In the March issue, their list of multiple vehicles they’d buy if they had £125K to spend include the Mini Cooper, BMW 135i coupe, BMW 3.0 E3, BMW 3.0 CSL, BMW M635CSi, Jaguar Mk2 3.8, XK120, MGB GT and the Volvo 850 TS-R. Also in the issue, the story of a Land Rover which was retrieved from burial (!) and put back in driv- ing condition and a feature on a “Mini with a trunk,” a Speedwell- modified Riley Elf. April’s T&CC has a cover feature on “V8 Grand (Continued on page 8)

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20 Apr 19—JAGSL Judge’s Training Seminar 2019, hosted by Chief Judge Jim Hendrix and Co-Chief Judge John Testrake. Concours season is coming around and it’s time to update your judging credentials. To do that, you need to attend judge’s training; however, you don’t have to be a judge to attend this session, all are welcome. Starts at 11 AM at Hyman Ltd, 2310 Chaffee Dr, St Louis (http://hymanltd.com). RSVP to John Testrake at [email protected]. 20 Apr 19—Annual Gateway Healey Association Spring Tune-Up/Cleanup, in advance of the Forest Park Concours. At Keith Bester’s garage, 115 N Sappington; starts at 11 AM, bring a dish to share. 20 Apr 19—Gateway Chapter BMWCCA Season Kick-Off Picnic and Car Show, Broemmelseick Park, Wentzville. So- cialize with BMW fanatics and their families while local chef Brandi Childress whips up an amazing lunch of burgers, brats and pork chops. $5 for adults, $7 if entering the car show, children under 12 eat free. For more information, call up www.stlbmwcca.org/wordpress/2019-annual-picnic-party-party/. 20 Apr 19—Cars & Coffee/Westport returns! 8 AM-11 AM, Westport Plaza. 21 Apr 19—58th Annual Forest Park Easter Concours d’Elegance, hosted by the Horseless Carriage Club of Missouri. On the Muny upper lot, monitor http://hccmo.com/easter-concours-delegance-2019/. The event includes MG-Triumph Challenge X for the British Leyland Participation Trophy. 27 Apr 19—JAGSL R&R Ranch Tour & Lunch. Come out for a drive to and tour of the R&R Ranch, including the ranch’s mini horse rescue barn and muscle car collection. Afterwards, we’ll drive to Labadie for lunch at the Hawthorne Inn, 123 Front St. Meet at 9 AM at the St Louis BreadCo, 17132 Chesterfield Airport Rd, cars depart at 9:40 AM. Monitor www.jagstl.com and the online Growl. 27 Apr 19—Cars & Coffee/St Louis Motor Cars, 9 Arnage Blvd, Chesterfield, 10 AM-noon. Info at https://calendar.time.ly/ xzi1q8ed/posterboard. 27 Apr 19—Caffeine & Chrome, at Gateway Classic Cars, 1237 Central Park Dr, O’Fallon, IL, 8:30 AM-Noon. Complemen- tary coffee, donuts and self tours of the showroom. For info, call (618)271-3000. 28 Apr 19—BSCC autocross #2, Family Arena, St Charles, show about 9:30 AM. To get on the event mailing list or for ad- ditional, contact Racer Steve at [email protected]. 3 May 19—8th Annual Union Methodist Church Car Cruise, 5:30 PM-8:30 M, UUMC rear upper parking lot at 721 E Main St, Belleville. 50/50 drawing, food available, no alcohol or burnouts. For info call (618)235-3959. 3 May 19—Memories Car Club Cruise at Faith Church, aka “The Zoo,” first Friday of each month. Rahning Rd off MO 30/Gravois, 4 PM-9 PM, all vehicles ’79 or older are welcome. 3 May 19—Kirkwood Sonic Car Cruise, at Big Bend and S Kirkwood, every Friday night through the end of September. Tends toward muscle cars and rods but foreign vehicles are welcome! 4 May 19—St Louis Triumph Owners Association Tech Session, at It’s Alive Automotive, 11714 St Charles Rock Rd, 10 AM. Lunch follows at Bus Loop Burgers, “The Best Damn Burgers in Town,” 10462 St Charles Rock Rd. For more info contact Steve Moore at (314)249-4701 or [email protected]. 4 May 19—Rockwood Summit High School Car Show, hosted by the RSHS Biodiesel Club. Registration at 7:30 AM at 1780 Hawkins Rd, Fenton. Dash magnets to the first 100 cars, attendance prizes, 50/50 raffle benefits the Biodiesel Club. Registration forms at http://rshsbiodiesel.weebly.com, or call (314)3060-0289 for info. 4 May 19—Cars & Coffee West/Sunrise Church, 7116 Twin Chimneys Blvd, O’Fallon, MO, 8 AM-10 AM. Info at https:// calendar.time.ly/xzi1q8ed/posterboard. 4 May 19—19th Annual Elsberry Classics on Wheels Car Show, 9 AM-3 PM, Elsberry City Park (4th and Broadway). Dash plaques to the first 75 cars to register; registration $20, 9 AM-Noon, judging Noon-2 PM, awards at 3 PM. For more information, contact Michael Short at [email protected] or (636)577-2514. 4 May 19—57th Annual Azalea Festival Car Show, Courthouse Square, Fredericktown, MO. For info, contact Peggy Yount (573)631-0692. 10 May 19—Misfit Toyz Car, Truck & Bike Cruise, 2nd Friday each month, April through October, 6-10 PM. At Hardees, 2580 Lemay Ferry Rd, St Louis. 11 May 19—Gateway Chapter BMWCCA Tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright home, in Ebsworth Park, Kirkwood. Arrive at 12:45 for a 1 PM tour, $10, advanced purchase required. For details or to register, call up www.stlbmwcca.org/wordpress/ frank-lloyd-wright-home-tour/. 11 May 19—Cars & Coffee/Fast Lane Classic Cars, 427 Little Hills Industrial Blvd, St Charles. Hosted by Fast Lane, C&C St Louis, the Bridge Coffee Nouse and the Dokaj Foundation, 8 AM-10 AM. Info at https://calendar.time.ly/xzi1q8ed/ posterboard. 18 May 19—Cars & Coffee/Westport, 8 AM-11 AM. 18 May 19—50th Anniversary of Backstoppers “Backstoppalooza” Car Show, in support of police, fire and first re- sponder families. At Premium Outlet in Chesterfield, next to the old Rombach’s Pumpkin Farm. Registration at 10:30 AM, pre-registration $20, day of $25. Awards at 4 PM. For more info, call up https://backstoppers.org/events/backstoppalooza- car-show/. Thanks for your support. 25 May 19—JAGSL Garage Tour & Driving Event: Horses, Horses and More Horses! Start at the McDonalds at 2144 W Terra Lane, O’Fallon, Missouri, then head to Kelly’s place for bagels and coffee and a tour of horse-powered trans- portation, of the wheeled and four-legged varieties. Then to Steve’s place for more horsepower. Lunch $13 per person, drinks included; RSVP to Kelly Waite at [email protected]. Monitor www.jagstl.com and the online Growl. 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Roadwork—Ecurie Ecosse

In and around the legendary status and connotation of the At the 11 October 1952 Sports Unlimited Race at Charterhall, term, “British Racing Green” (aka “BRG”), is a little-known Stewart took first place in an C-Type (XK120C), beating Stirling fact: one of the most successful Brit racing teams of the 1950s Moss in a similar mount; teammate Bill Dobson drove one of was Scottish. The team was , which celebrated the XK120s. Motorsport magazine took notice of Stewart’s its status by painting its Jaguars and other cars in a dark me- victory: tallic blue, known as “flag metallic blue.” For several years, Clearly "Wilkie" Wilkinson has laid an expert hand on Ecurie Ecosse did a proud job of boosting Jaguar’s racing Ian Stewart's Ecurie Ecosse XK120C Jaguar, because, fortunes, including several occasions where it bested the fac- try as Moss did in Wisdom's XK120C, Ian won—a pop- tory team. ular win—by 15.6 sec., averaging 77.5 m.p.h. and set- Accountant and former ting fastest lap, at 79.4 m.p.h. racing drive W. David Mur- By this point the team’s cars were becoming ray of Edinburgh founded well-known at various circuits. Notably, while the team in November a team based in the British isles, Ecurie 1951, with mechanic Walter Ecosse’s Jaguars didn’t wear the standard E. “Wilkie” Wilkinson. Mur- British Racing Green. Instead, they bore the ray selected the French dark metallic blue representing Scotland. Ian name for his new operation Stewart came up with the color, as well as the (literally, “Stable Scotland”); Ecurie Ecosse logo. according to the Ecurie Murray, left, with Sir James Douglas Ecosse web page, Murray Over the following three years, the team took a stab at For- Scott and Ian Stewart (Ecurie Ecosse was a Francophone and mula 1 racing, starting with the British Grand Prix Silverstone photo). Below, “Wilkie” Wilkinson, even operated a wine on 19 July 1952. Murray drove a Cooper T20-Bristol but didn’t right, with Billy Cotton at Brooklands store in Edinburgh which finish; Alberto Ascari won in a Ferrari 500, followed by Piero (photo via Simon Lewis) specialized in French Taruffi in a similar car and in another T20. The wines. following year, Ecu- rie Ecosse ran two Murray had a racing cars: a Cooper driv- background. He entered en by Jimmy Stew- the 1937 24 Heures du art, plus a Con- Mans in a BMW 328, co- naught A-Type, run driving with Pat Fairfield. by Ian Stewart. Both Tragically, Fairfield died in DNF’d and the event a six-car accident on the marked Ian’s single eighth lap which also killed F1 appearance (his Bugatti driver Jean younger brother, Kippeurt. On 16 July 1938, Jackie, went on to in another 328, he managed a fifth place finish in the 3 hour some fame in For- race at Brooklands. Post-World War II, Murray resumed com- One of the former team T20s at Goodwood, mula 1). The 1954 petition in an MG. Over time, he met well-known English driver 2007 (photo by Wouter Melissen) British Grand Prix, Reg Parnell and bought his Maserati 4CLT/48; on 18 April JM held on 17 July, saw Leslie Thorne run the Connaught to 14th 1949, he took the car to a fifth place finish at Goodwood in the place. It marked the best finish in the team’s brief foray in F1. Formula Libre Handicap Race. However, through this period, Le Mans remained the main The first race under the guise of Ecurie Ecosse took place at target for Ecurie Ecosse. In 1951, Peter Walker and Peter the former Royal Air Force airfield at Charterhall on 6 April Whitehead scored a win in the 24-hour race in Walker’s 1952, where Ian Stewart placed second in a team XK120. XK120C, marking the first Le Mans win for a British car since Next came a 29 May run at Douglas for the British Empire Johnny Hindmarsh and Luis Fontes’ 1935 victory in a Lagonda Trophy, where the team entered three Jaguars; in a unique M45R Rapide. The Jaguar team showed up for the 1952 event turn, the drivers ran their own cars, with Murray concentrating with three C-Types, driven by /Duncan Hamilton, on team management and Wilkinson handling the preparation /Peter Walker and Peter Whitehead/Ian Stewart. side. Murray did co-drive with Bill Dobson in the latter’s All three failed due to overheating resulting from head gasket XK120, but they DNF’d due to a loss of brakes while team- failures; still, after the event Hamilton acquired the first custom- mate Ian Stewart’s Jaguar went out due to a broken fuel th er C-Type, followed by Ian Stewart. pump. Sir James Scott-Douglas finished 6 in the third XK120. In the 5 July 1953 12 Hours of Reims, France, Ecurie Ecosse’s C-Type, driven by Douglas and , finished 4th. At the 25-26 July race at Spa Francorchamps, Belgium, Sir James Scott-Douglas and Guy Gale finished 2nd in a team C-Type, besting the Herman Roosdorp/Toni Ulmen C- Type. At August’s Nürburgring 1000 Kilometers, Douglas and Sanderson finished 10th in an XK120. At Le Mans in 1955, Jaguar’s Mike Hawthorn and won in a brand new D-Type, crossing the line in front of Mike Collins and Paul Frère in an DB3S and Johnny Claes/Jacques Swaters in the Ecurie Francorchamps D-Type. Needless to say, the race finished under somber circumstanc- es, the result of ’s third hour accident in a Mer- cedes-Benz 300SLR which killed 83 spectators and injured over 100 others.

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Ecurie Ecosse (Continued from page 3) For 1959, Ecurie Ecosse entered a single D-Type and a Tojeiro-Jaguar; both failed to finish the race due to engine Ecurie Ecosse sat out the 1955 24-hour event, but – fortu- failures. and in the D-Type nately for Jaguar’s fortunes – arrived with a single D-Type for departed on lap 70 while the Tojeiro, driven by Tim Flockhart the 28-29 July event…and won. Ron Flockhart and Ninian and John Lawrence, went out with on Lap 137. The team ran Sanderson completed 300 laps at an average speed of 104.47 a D-Type for the last time in 1960; the car, driven by Flockhart mph, beating Stirling Moss and Peter Collins in a factory Aston and Bruce Halford, sustained a crankshaft failure on lap 157. Martin DB3S. Swaters and “Freddy” Rousselle finished 4th in Elsewhere, and Walt Hansgen in the Briggs Cun- the Equipe National Belge D-Type while Mike Hawthorn/Ivor ningham Jaguar E2A (the E-Type prototype) went out on the Bueb placed 6th in the factory D-Type. Otherwise, the Jaguar 89th lap due to a failed head gasket. team had a rough time. According to British automotive writer Ecurie Ecosse made two more attempts at the legendary 24 Gregor Grant, -hour race, running a Cooper T57 Monaco-Climax driven by …the entire Jaguar team met with misfortune. Early Halford and Tommy Dickson and Sanderson and Alan McKay on, Paul Frere overcooked it at Tertre Rouge, and Fair- in an Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite. Both cars crashed out, on man, following closely behind, narrowly missed crash- the 32nd and 40th laps respectively. A year later, the Jack Fair- ing into the spinning car. However, he in turn, was man/Tommy Dickson Tojeiro EE Coupe-Climax left the com- rammed by the late De Portago’s Ferrari. Fairman petition early due to a failed gearbox. managed to crawl back to the pits, but the car was too The 1962 Le Mans race pretty much marked the end of ma- badly damaged to continue…the Jaguar works team jor competition for Ecurie Ecosse. Still, it rang up quite a rec- was completely out of the running. However, “Ecurie ord, with 68 victories over 10 seasons, including periodic ap- Ecosse” came to the rescue, and, after a race-long pearances by drivers such as , Jack , Stir- duel with Moss and Collins in a DB3S Aston Martin, ling Moss and John Cleland. Faced with financial problems, Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson finished first. David Murray became a tax exile, departing the United King- Jaguar’s Managing Director, Sir William Lyons, subsequent- dom. His team soldiered on, including participation in Formula ly announced the company’s withdrawal from motorsports 2 racing between 1969 and 1971 with Graham Birrell and competition, in favor of production cars. That left Ecurie Richard Atwood. The 1971 featured a new driver, Tom Ecosse and a couple of other privateers to carry the flag at the Walkinshaw, driving a March 721M. 1957 24-hour race and they did just fine, with Ron Flockhart/ Ecurie Ecosse shut down and disbanded in 1972. David Ivor Bueb finishing in first and John Lawrence/Ninian Sander- Murray passed on 5 April 1973 at age 63, following an auto son in second, eight laps down. The winner ran with an en- accident in the Canary Islands. Wilkinson, who left Ecurie gine bored out to 3.8 litres with Lucas fuel injection installed; Ecosse following the Le Mans wins and later worked for BRM, the second place car was a stock D-Type. Again, per Grant, passed at age 98 in Warwickshire on 20 August 2001. “The race was a triumph for David Murray and his men, and owed more than a lot to the careful tuning of ‘Wilkie” Wil- Remarkably, the team made a comeback in 1982, under the kinson.” leadership of former Murray associate Hugh McCaig. The team won the C2 class of the World Sportscar Championship in 1986, with drivers , Marc Duez and David Leslie running an Ecosse C286-Rover. Ecurie Ecosse raced Vauxhall Cavaliers in the 1992 and 1993 British Touring Car Championship, took a break and returned to the track in 2011. Partnered with Nielsen Racing, the team now competes in the LMP3 class with a Ligier JS P3 with drivers Alisdair McCaig and Colin Noble.

Above, the winning Bueb/ Flockhart/D-Type at the 1957 Le Mans 24-Hour (photo via ShoreyNet). Below, Ecurie Ecosse’s one-two victory (photo via Primotipo)

Regrettably, the race also Back to Le Mans! The team’s C285-Ford DFL V8 at the 1986 effectively event, driven by Les Delano, Andy Petery and John Hotchkis. The served as the car finished 15th (Photo by Jeremy Banks via Racing Sports Cars) high-water mark for Ecurie Ecosse. In Vehicles of the original Ecurie Ecosse still exist, including 1958, both of the famous team transporter, built by Alexander of Falkirk, the team’s Scotland. The truck features a chassis with power DNF’d; the en- provided by a Commer TS3 three-cylinder, horizontally- gine of the Mas- opposed two-stroke diesel engine. ten Gregory/ In late 2013, the truck – along with several former team cars th from the Skipworth Collection – sold for £8.8 million (about car let go on the 7 lap, followed by the Sanderson/Lawrence $11.6 million) in a Bonhams. The cars included the team’s D-Type with similar ills. Ivor Bueb and Duncan Hamilton, in st 1952 XK120, 1952 C-Type, 1956 D-Type, 1959 Tojeiro- the latter’s D-Type, left the race on their 251 lap due to an Jaguar, 1960 Cooper-Monaco, 1961 Austin-Healey Sebring accident. and took first place in a Sprite and a 1962 Tojeiro-Buick coupe. Ferrari 250 TR58, followed by the Aston Martin DB3S of Peter and Graham Whitehead. (Continued on page 5)

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Ecurie Ecosse (Continued from page 4)

The individual who successfully bid on the truck also came away with two of the team sports cars. Said James Knight, Bonham’s motoring direc- tor, “The Jaguars were exceptionally popular, and I am delighted that the transport will still be carrying two of its original Ecurie Ecosse racing cars.” More recently, Sotheby’s auctioned XKD501 the team’s 1956 Le Mans winner, driven by Flockhart and Sanderson; the car went for a somewhat reasonable £16,655,600 / $21,715,581. Thanks to individuals like these who acquire and preserve the cars and those brave souls who occasional- ly get them out for excursions and vintage racing at tracks like Silverstone and Goodwood, we should be seeing these proud representatives of Above, the Ecurie Ecosse collection, including the famous transporter (photo via Bonhams). Below, XD501, the 1956 Scotland for some time to come. Le Mans winner (photo via Sotheby)

Sources: Ecurie Ecosse, www.ecurieecosse.com; Racing Sports Cars, www.racingsportscars.com/; David McLean, “Lost Edinburgh: Ecurie Ecosse,” The Scotsman, 8 July 2014; “History of Ecurie Ecosse,” Nielsen Racing, n.d.; Graham Gauld, “Graham Gauld, Edinburgh and Nostalgia,” Velocity Today, 15 September 2015; “Jersey International Road Race,” The Island Wiki, n.d.; “Gerard’s old E.R.A. wins an epic Charterhall Inter- national Trophy Race, beating B.R.M.,” Motorsport, November 1952, p 21; Gregor Grant, British Sports Cars, 5th ed. London: G.T. Foulis & Co Ltd, 1958; Paul Hudson, “Ecurie Ecosse collection fetches £8.8 million,” The (London) Telegraph, 2 December 2013.

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MG Club of St Louis Tech Session It’s Alive Automotive—18 Mar 19

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More Mini... Speaking of Minis (last issue), on 8 April Bring a Trailer posted this photo of a Mini-Moke dueling with a Ferrari 250LM (!) during the 1966 Rothman’s 12 Hour race at the original Surfers Paradise course in Queensland, Australia. Notably, and Andy Buchanan shared the driving chores in the Ferrari; they won the event, beating Pete Sutcliffe and Frank Matich in a Ford GT40. The Moke, driven by CG Smith and Barry Seaton, DNF on lap 311. Surfers Paradise International Raceway op- erated from 1963 until its replacement by a street circuit in 1988 or thereabouts. The track served as a regular stop in the Tasman Series, the Rothmans International Series and the Aus- tralian Touring Car Championship.

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Tourers;” the group of six cars evaluated includes an MGB V8. The same issue has an article on the recovery and restoration of an MG Maestro Turbo which had been stolen and burned. Classic & Sports Car for March starts off with a bang: a cover article on the “Greatest ‘50s sports cars.” The presented vehicles include an AC Ace, Austin-Healey 100M, Jaguar XK120, MGA Twin Cam and Triumph TR3A. Later in the issue, a comparison between two saloons/sedans which used the same basic engine design, the Triumph Dolomite and Saab 99. April’s Car & Driver features a look at Volvo’s “Tesla fighter,” the an all-electric SUV developed by the company’s performance branch, Polestar. Over at May’s Classic Motorsports, the restoration of an MG TD. Finally, while not a magazine we regularly review, March’s Motor Trend contained several articles of interest, starting with a cover feature on the 2020 Toyota Supra. The write-up includes a comparison of the Supra with the new BMW Z4, which shares engineering. In addition, articles on the latest 3-series BMW (specifically the 330i M Sport; the story incorporates a quick sum- mary of the previous six generations of 3-series cars), the M850i and long-term updates on the magazine’s X3 M40i, Volvo XC60 and Jaguar F-Pace. 8

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