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Vintage vendetta

Short Story (5,500 words)

A light-hearted story about a car race.

Professor Fitzharris and Sir John Coddinstone are veteran car enthusuasts and long-standing rivals. After an auction in which Sir John's agent and mechanic, Richard Denby, bids an outrageous amount for a car the Professor wants, he meets the Professor's daughter and proposes to her. She will only marry him with her father's approval, which is unlikely to be given. But love will find a way.

 

Argosy, September 1962