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INCOMING!

WATN?

John Surtees sits astride a Norton Dominator, chatting to Geoff Duke. A couple of years later, RC reader Derek used a Surtees racing frame to build an extra-special Dominator

This must be the most impossible ‘where are they now?’ quest, but I have to give it a go.

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