A number of us worked on the
Motor Sport archives over the past three/four years. The revised copy has been greatly improved. We began with OCR scans but converted these to documents which we edited, word by word, line by line, in a pretty exhaustive process. So the revised versions in the archive are excellent. I was mainly involved with Fifties and Sixties issues and the only quality problem was the the writing itself (!) - both Boddy and Jenks, though obviously enthusiastic about the sport itself, were not good writers, much given to cliches and repetition.
Enjoying the thread's current 917 focus - a car that impresses me today every bit as much as it did when first seen in '69. As with the GOAT driver debate, it's probably impossible to objectively justify, but I reckon it to be the greatest racing car we've ever seen - or heard!
View attachment 1137695
Credit to
Pete Chopping - his Instagram account includes some marvellous photographs from the period.
Click to expand...