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The Carchive: The Caterham 21
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It’s time once more to don our protective gauntlets, attach our safety harnesses and descend into the hazardous void that contains all that automotive literature that time forgot. Welcome back to The Carchive. Last visit saw us drinking in the sheer value of the 1982 Skoda line. Today we’re paying scant regard to practicality and…
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The Carchive: The '82 Skoda Range
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Today we sit at the cutting edge of motoring, but getting here has been an arduous journey. There have been many diversions, pitfalls and breakdowns on the way, and quite a few wrong turns. There were stretches of the trip which will be fondly remembered, and periods which will be spoken of only in hushed…
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The Carchive: The '98 Buick Riviera
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Once every week we put on our HazMat clothing and venture through the airlock into history’s desolate wasteland. Here lie scattered the decaying remains of cars gone by, recorded for posterity by printed media issued by the dealerships of the day. Welcome back to The Carchive. Last week was far more whimsical than this because…
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The Carchive: The 1967 Ford Thunderbird
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It’s that time again when right-minded folk will change their browser to another channel and go read something else for the next couple of hours. Those of you who remain can join me for a rummage through the dirty laundry of time in search of an interesting sock or cherished, fading T-shirt. Welcome to The…
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The Carchive: The Series III Hillman Minx
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The Carchive is where we close our eyes to whatever’s going on at the cutting edge of the automotive world, take a deep breath and ponder the past, rummaging through the highs and the lows of history. From a brief flirtation with heavy trucks last week we drop down a couple of dozen sizes today…
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The Carchive: The '74 Ford W-Series
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It’s time to flag down a passing AEC Regent, hop onto the platform and find a conductor to sell us a ticket to memory lane, passing through bewilderment, disbelief and, most probably, irony on our way. Welcome back to The Carchive. Last week we looked at the pride of Browns Lane, the unmistakeable new Jaguar…
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The Carchive: '75 Jaguar XJS
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It’s that time of the week again when I have the excuse to make our study and much of the upstairs landing horribly untidy as I hurl car brochures all over the place in the search for something to chronicle in our weekly trip down memory lane. And while we’re at it we can decide…
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The Carchive: The Austin 1100
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It’s time once again for me to machete my way through the spider webs to uncover another gem from motoring past, blow off the dust and evaluate if the damn thing was worth my quest in the first place. Welcome back to The Carchive. It’s the early ’60s. The space race is in full effect…
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The Carchive: The 1984 Audi Coupe
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It’s time to head down to the shoreline once again and find out what’s been washed up on the jagged rocks of motoring history. Welcome back to The Carchive. This series doesn’t always draw people to take the jump like perhaps it should, and this is often because the headline image doesn’t exhibit much zing.…
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The Carchive: The 1970 Hillman Avenger
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It’s time to take a feather duster to the cobwebbed, dusty memories of years gone by, and a look at a car SO AMAZING that to deprive North Americans of it just wouldn’t have been Cricket. It’s the all-new for 1970 Hillman Avenger, a car whose dynamic, warplane-like name rather belied the actual product, which…
