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The Carchive: The Dodge 50 Series Trucks.
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It’s 19:28, I’m watching NCIS on DVD, floating on a cocktail of paracetamol and ibuprofen and surrounded by ample supplies of three-ply tissues. Much of my face is red raw through repeated nose-blowing endeavours, I’m deaf in my right ear and the room spins gently whenever I raise my eyes anywhere above the horizon. Welcome…
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The Carchive: '74 Corvette (C3)
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On Monday Rob posted a reminder that, lest we forget, Chrysler once showed us that they still had blood running through their veins by giving the world the Viper. This was a car that went into production (and turned up in The Carchive here) with surprisingly little dilution from the show-stopping prototype. The ’92 Viper…
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The Carchive: The Peugeot 309
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I didn’t quite get this ready in time for the usual Friday slot, so let’s use our 13:30 Monday lunch break to fix that puncture on the bicycle of discovery and head out for a muddy scramble along the bridleway of motoring history. The Lion goes from strength to strength. A couple of weeks ago…
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The Carchive: The '86 Austin Rover Range- In Video!
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Another week has creaked past, and so we celebrate by climbing the ladder of intrigue up onto the diving board of exploration, ready to plunge inelegantly into the murky, slightly malodorous lagoon of motoring history. Welcome back once more to The Carchive. Last week we spent a little while looking at what Nissan had to…
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The Carchive: The Datsun 280C
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So, it’s now Friday afternoon And it came not a moment too soon. Lets take time to explore, A car brochure from yore, While eating tinned pears with a spoon. It’s time for the Carchive, which this week means visiting Japan in 1980 to bask in the sheer magnificence of the Datsun 280c.
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The Carchive: The '73 Peugeot 404
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It’s Friday, and I for one think that it’s come about five days too late this week. So let’s unwind by pumping up the tyres on our bicycle of discovery and take a meandering trip trip along the rust-coloured avenue of automotive history. We’re heading to early ’70s France for this week’s visit to The…
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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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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 GKN Lotus Europa V8 (GKN47D)
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For this week’s visit to The Carchive we venture into one of many small chambers which are subsidiary to the main cave network, the furthest you can go without potholing. This is where I keep all those automotive artefacts which fit into the category of “specialist” which is another word for “miscellaneous”. Everybody knows The…
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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…
