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The Carchive: The 2007 Japanese Motor Vehicle Guidebook
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Among the several documents that make up The Carchive, the Japanese Domestic Market volumes are among those that I revisit the most often. It all comes down to the ‘forbidden fruit’ nature of so many Far Eastern cars – just like even the most prosaic of North American cars, you just don’t see them on…
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The Carchive: The European Ford Fusion
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Sometimes a car brochure will positively sweat with pro-lifestyle excess, while others simply play things straight down the line. The best brochures will give you an accurate description of the conveyance they represent, the worst will leave almost everything to your imagination and force you to carry out your own research. The most fascinating, though,…
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The Carchive: The 1977 Mitsubishi Colt range
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Of the myriad documents found in The Carchive, a big percentage were collected as I grew up, many were harvested secondhand from autojumbles and the like, and a good few have come from generous benefactors – some of whom might be reading this right now. The considerable balance, though, have been purloined from eBay. This…
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The Carchive: The E23 BMW 7 Series – In Art
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It’s Friday night, and time for our (sometimes) weekly trip on the rusty, buckled monorail of discovery, into the bleak, architecturally suspect neighbourhood of the past to see what kind of souvenirs you can get from the dank, litter strewn terminus of oblivion. Welcome back to The Carchive. Car brochures are great! I really like…
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The Carchive: A 1987 Ford Accessories catalogue
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It’s time for our weekly trip into the sewers in which the dirty dishwater of yesterdays memories ebb and flow. With so much history swept into our drains every day, it’s up to some of us to get busy with the sieves and see if we can strain out one or two tasty morsels. Welcome…
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The Carchive: The 1987 Mercury Topaz
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It’s Friday night, and, oh… well, nobody’s going to be reading this, anyway. I could write absolutely anything on the inauguration day of a new US president; everybody will be out drinking vast quantities of alcohol either to celebrate or to try to forget. Not I, though. Your loyal servant is here when it matters,…
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The Carchive: The Triumph 2000 /2500
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It’s friday night where I am, and I’m putting this together while sipping Glenlivet and watching ancient episodes of NCIS from a DVD procured extremely inexpensively from Amazon. However, both can wait. I’m going to frantically pump up the tyres on the squeaky BMX of discovery, pedal on over to that old dirt track of…
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The Carchive: The 1973 Citroen Ami range
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It’s Friday afternoon, and coming pretty close to time for downing tools. Let’s take the scenic route home, maybe try the overgrown lane of curiosity, perhaps pausing at the lake of history. Then have a rummage amongst the driftwood on the shoreline of discovery, see you find. Welcome to The Carchive. The last trip we…
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The Carchive: The '96 Dodge Avenger
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It’s time to pitch the leaky, torn canvas tent of wisdom on the edge of the dark forest of Motoring history, and wait to see whatever tattered relics are blown out by the breeze of rediscovery. Welcome back to The Carchive Why, you might ask, am I bothering to cover the Dodge Avenger of all…
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The Carchive: The 1976 Ladas
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It’s been a great week in the Hooniverse, and we’ve seen an awful lot of ongoing projects. Some are fixer-uppers, some are basket-cases and some are just so monumentally exciting as to defy any attempt at description. But only one of them is a Lada. In honour of Kamil’s Soviet slingshot, we’re heading back to…
