“The car, a special souped-up Citroën, went by so fast that many villagers didn’t see it. Inside it, grinning hugely, was Idi Amin, President of Uganda. Someone had just given Amin the Citroën, said to be capable of 180 m.p.h. He drove it flat out for 557 miles, mostly over narrow, unsurfaced roads, and got back to Kampala in less than seven hours”.— From “Assignment Africa” in the February1973 edition of Reader’s Digest, sent to us by a Motor Sport reader in Cyprus.

“There are certain traumas in a man’s life when one realises that the past is gone and a veer to a new future is ahead. Such is the moment when a man decides that his fidelity to the British motor industry is dead and the plunge into Japan is taken . . . . One turns one’s tired eyes across another sea. Perhaps a period of purgatory can wreck the sins of the coffee-break. Goodbye Brummingham. Hello Yokohama. Let us hope, Brummingham, that me and thee may meet again. The light is in the dashboard”—Allan Fotheringham, writing. in the Vancouver Sun after buying a Datsun, following ownership of a second-hand Austin, an Austin Healey Sprite (he says it weighed approx. 180 lb. fully-loaded!), four MGs, a Sunbeam and an Austin 1800. The cutting came from a Motor Sport reader in Vancouver who also drove British cars until three years ago, when he changed to an Isuzu with 15,000 miles on it, which is still, he says, on its original clutch after 80,000 miles. Action Lord Stokes!