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The Sudden Desirability of the Undesired.
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I returned home on Thursday to find that the message pictured above had been left under my wiper. A brief survey of the street revealed that mine was the only car to have been awarded such a note and I was immediately flushed with pride that somebody wanted MY car. No interest in the ’05…
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Icelandic Odyssey: Air-Conditioning, 49 Seats, Anywhere.
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When you rock up in the campsite there’s always somebody smugly BBQing outside their Prevost, looking down their nose at the massed ranks of Fleetwoods and Winnebagos as the evening sun glints off the gleaming chrome of their retirement land-yacht. In those situations what you really need is a locomotive horn to break the hickory-smoke…
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Three Cars, One Hill
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This was the best magazine road test that had never been undertaken. In an ideal world it would have been me and two other top-flight motoring journalists, and perhaps a photographer with a chase car. We would have had two days to get the exact shots that we wanted for the feature, as well as…
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The Carchive: The 1982 Toyota Supra
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The Gypsy Queens have been started, the stewardess is on hand with sandwiches and tea, let’s all board the “Carchive Airways” De Haviland Dove of wisdom and take a slow, low flight through motoring history. Our destination is quite a few refuelling stops away, mind: Today we’re off to Japan. We’re taking a look at…
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Modern Art Monday: A Good Sign.
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When you buy something on spec, having read a bit of online text, maybe seen a couple of photos, you know perfectly well that you’re going in without knowing the full story. It all adds to the air of mystery. Mind you, even the most in-depth advertorial combined with exhibition-quality photography can only tell you…
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The Carchive: The Mercedes W123 Sedans
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It’s been a long, heavy week, and boy am I looking forward to taking an hour away from 2016. Let’s jump aboard the skiff of research, put the oars in the rowlocks of time and skull slowly across the lake of automotive history, before reaching up on the rocky shore of The Carchive. Today we’re…
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The Carchive: The Asia Rocsta.
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Time for our weekly trawl through the filthsome deposits at the bottom of the swamp of motoring history. Put on your drysuit and plug your nostrils, it’s The Carchive and we’re going in. From last week’s Volvo we’re heading forward in time to the mid ’90s, but diverting to the Pacific Rim, as we check…
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You Can't Save 'Em All
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The sun came out on Sunday for long enough to trick my wife and I into venturing out for a nice long afternoon walk. Half an hour after leaving the house we found ourselves enduring storm force winds and impenetrable gloominess, but we pressed on nonetheless. Our path took us past our local fire station,…
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V.I.S.I.T: A Rover and Life After Death
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Darren was a grafter. A bricklayer by trade, he would pride himself in getting stuck into a project. The more he was seen as being willing to get involved, the more likely he was to be awarded the work. So, in all weathers, he’d be the first on site and probably the first to leave.…
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No Excuse For Vague Road Safety Policing
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“No excuse for poor driving”. Well, what if you’re a poor driver? This dot-matrix sign shows a current UK Gubbmint road-safety initiative. The thing is, that brightly illuminated road sign doesn’t really mean anything, does it? You can be a poor driver without actually causing any specific motoring offence. In fact, unless accompanied by a…
