Wheels Australia - June 2018

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Bill Tuckey’s 1978 roadtrip across

the Hay Plains and beyond

THE WAY IT WAS

We scoop the interior of the new Falcon some three months before it’s revealed; Paul Cockburn plays human
witches hat for the Saab Precision Driving Team; Robbo compares the new Mercedes-Benz ML320 with the
Range Rover 4.0 SE and LandC
speaks about his ambitions for

Larry Page and Sergey Brin,

students from California’s

StanfordUniversity,launcha

search engine company they

call Google. The name is a

mispelling of ‘googol’, which is

1followedby100zeros.‘Google’

becomes a verb in 2006.

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On January 26 at a White House

press conference, US President

Bill Clinton utters the line

regarding an intern that would

come back to haunt him: “I did

nothave sexual relations with

that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”

Never touched her

ALSO IN WHEELS, June 1998

Red flagged careers

Neither Pate nor Hossack went on to conquer the world in V8 Supercars. They paired up to

finish eighth in the ’98 Sandown endurance race and seventh at Bathurst, but no full-time

drives followed. Hossack was Sports Sedan champion in 2004 and then spent 20 years as

race manager at DPE Kart Technology before opening Hossack Motor Sport Services in

2017. Pate finished 62nd in the 1998 V8 Supercars series and then dropped out of motor
      sport. Today he’s the national sales manager at MotorOne, a car-care products company.

Swiss watch maker Swatch

has a brave crack at turning

the world onto ‘decimal’ time,

where a 24-hour day is broken

into 1000 ‘.beats’. That makes a

‘.beat’ 86.4 seconds, and ... never

mind, clearly it never caught on.

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