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1972: Welcome to SPAGHETTI JUNCTION | Wheelbase | Retro Transport | BBC Archive
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as posted by the channel"This is the missing link, the part of the jigsaw that we needed to make our motorway system make sense."
The day before it opens to the general motoring public, Wheelbase presenter Barrie Gill takes a test drive on the new M1 - M6 motorway link, the Gravelly Hill interchange, colloquially known as Spaghetti Junction.
Is it as complicated to navigate as it looks?
Clip taken from Wheelbase, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 23 May, 1972.
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