Archive : The great escape

AROnline Calendar IconNovember 1, 1994 · AROnline Card IconKeith Adams · AROnline Comments Icon2 Comments
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TV Journalist Michael Kirsch was once saved by three Bosnians. To repay the debt, he drove a £190 Marina to their war-ravaged country to try and get them out…

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This feature was originally published in CAR Magazine in November 1994…

  One remarkable story…
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AROnline Calendar IconNovember 1, 1994 · AROnline Card IconKeith Adams · AROnline Comments Icon2 Comments
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  1. Steve Bailey - October 30, 2011

    Should have read something like: Octane and Practical Classics come close to matching the old Car magazine (not the new one, it’s one big car advert).

  2. Steve Bailey - October 30, 2011

    Remember reading this at the time, Car magazine back then was full of fantastic stories like this and others (Edinburgh on a Monkey, James Ruppert’s Crap Car Cup, won by James May – yes, that one – and Paul Horrell, Kerbcrawler by James Ruppert), whereas now it seems to be full of new expensive supercars and German luxury saloons.  

    They were never afraid to speak out if a car wasn’t any good.  I remember their verdict on the long term Golf VR6 they ran – the front page is below.  What car magazine would dare to upset their advertisers by running a cover like that nowadays?  

    From the mid-Eighties to the mid-Nineties there was nothing to touch it.  Still isn’t, although Octane and Practical Classics come close.

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