1980's Autocar and Whatcar? Road Tests scans

[dockertrigger]

Don't know if any of you on here would be interested but over the last few months I've been scanning and uploading a load of my old Whatcar?, CAR, Autocar and Motor magazines road tests from 1955 to 1990ish to flickr.

It's taken ages so far and I'm not even halfway through yet!, My wife thinks I'm sad! (I think she's right but i tell her she doesn't understand...!)

You need to login to view them in full size (It's free to sign up though is you haven't before) But theres loads (Over 300) of interesting ones including, BMW M3 E30, Sierra RS500 Cosworth and Mk1 Golf GTi.

Here's the link www.flickr.com/photos/7869726@N02/sets/

Enjoy

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[Vixpy1]

Um, you do know Haymarket own Autocar and PH don't you?

[EK993]

Superb! Can see am going to be spending hours reading through those....

[Mk3Escy]

Those are fantastic, what scanner do you have as I need to scan my mags at some point.

[gib6933]

Fantastic it has the model t

[texasjohn]

Brilliant!

Thanks for sharing

[dockertrigger]

Vixpy1 said:

Um, you do know Haymarket own Autocar and PH don't you?

Do they? Wouldn't thought it be a problem though as they are obsolete tests now and I'm not doing it for profit.

Thanks for the heads-up though.

Mk3Escy said:

Those are fantastic, what scanner do you have as I need to scan my mags at some point.

Just a HP PSC 1510, Had it a couple of years but it does the job.

Edited by dockertrigger on Saturday 28th March 20:26

[Vixpy1]

dockertrigger said:

Vixpy1 said:

Um, you do know Haymarket own Autocar and PH don't you?

Do they? Wouldn't thought it be a problem though as they are obsolete tests now and I'm not doing it for profit.

Thanks for the heads-up though.

Been reading them, really good stuff, but haymarket will still own the copyright, and may get arsey.

[mc_blue]

These are great, many thanks.

[coupeboy]

Many hours of interesting reading there, Thanks!

[dave_s13]

Jesus! You've been a busy boy

[Schermerhorn]

How do you make the pictures bigger?

[Kinky]

Schermerhorn said:

How do you make the pictures bigger?

Get a bigger screen

[Alfa_75_Steve]

Excellent.

Just been reading the Alfa 75 TSpark review and can report back that they're wrong about the handling.

They reckon it's not powerful enough to bring the tail around in the dry.

The marshals at an MSE airfield day can confirm this is not the case, as I received a bking for putting mine into the infield, backwards.....

[dockertrigger]

Glad your all enjoying them, Yeah i have been busy!

Schermerhorn said:

How do you make the pictures bigger?

You need to sign up to flickr, It's free so don't worry, then when your logged in click on the all sizes tab at the top of the picture you want to see to make it bigger, It will be fully readable then!. :-)

[FM]

Top man...thanks for the archives.

[chrisr29]

Thanks, top effort!

[hairykrishna]

Wow, thank you very much, some of these are very interesting.

[EK993]

The 911 SE review has a page missing.. don't suppose I could be cheeky and ask you to scan it in??

[tuscan_al]

Many thanks for putting these up, just spent half an hour on my night shift delving into the old mags The report on my new steed a Merc 300ce was great, and just how I feel about the car 17 years on