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  • The Carchive: The '79 Volvo 260 Range

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    As we put another tiring, prickly week behind us, let’s take a quick break from all that is new and surprising in the world and relax with something old and familar. Join me  as I squint at today’s ever so slightly out of focus document from The Carchive. After last week’s look at a Triumph…

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  • The Carchive: The Triumph Vitesse

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    It’s time for our weekly contrast with all that’s shiny and new in the Hooniverse News, as we blow the dust off something which had it’s moment of glory in the dim and distant past. Welcome the The Carchive. I presume I was hungry. Otherwise I struggle to explain the strange bite mark on the…

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  • The Carchive: The '73 Lincoln Continental MKIV

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    We finished last year’s run of visits to The Carchive at the turn of the ’70s with a look at a Simca 1100, the car without which the Hooniverse Podcast graphic would be nothing. Let’s stay in that decade and take a long, admiring glance at the ’73 Lincoln Continental MKIV. I’d also like this…

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  • The Carchive: Dodge Viper RT/10

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    It’s Friday afternoon, and NASA have been advised to track our activity as we make our way through the cold, dark, infinite blackness of automotive history in the hope of chancing upon a fascinating wormhole into motoring past. Welcome To The Carchive Today we’re looking at a brochure for a car which was widely celebrated…

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  • The Carchive Bonus Edition: Honda Motocompo

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    Any of you who were sufficiently dedicated to sit through today’s Carchive Video instalment will have noted this curious motorcycle as the last thing I spoke about. Well, inevitably this curious 1980s relic is SO INTERESTING that it goes way beyond the scope of The Carchive and an actual print brochure has so far evaded…

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  • The Carchive- Video Edition: The 1982 JDM Honda City

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    It’s time to get the coastguard on high alert as we clamber into our inadequate inflatable dinghy and set out in the violent swells of motoring history, in the hope that we might find something interesting floating between the relentless white horses. Welcome to The Carchive. Take the jump to endure another slice of Carchive…

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  • The Carchive: The '93 Lancia Thema

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    Summer returned to the UK for just a couple of hours this afternoon, not that I noticed as I had made my descent once more into the other-worldly void that is The Carchive. There I bravely battled fierce creatures, the defenders of the realm, in an effort to purloin and return to the surface the…

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  • The Carchive: The '97 Buick LeSabre

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    It’s Friday, it’s 13:30, it’s time to don our chainmail suits and leather gauntlets and venture into the dangerous realm that is The Carchive. Actually, scratch that, we can let our protective outfits rest in the wardrobe for another week. Finding today’s artefact required no more hazardous operation than bending over to pick a bright…

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  • The Carchive (In Video!): The 1979 JDM Nissan Stanza

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    Once a week we send a note home to warn loved ones of the imminent danger we face, before donning our biohazard gear and venturing into the foetid, toxic quagmire that is The Carchive. While in there we’ll peer into the gloom in the hope that something, anything worth our while will emerge from the…

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  • The Carchive: The Honda N-Series

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    Time for us to immunise ourselves with protective jabs and machete our way through the poisonous jungle of motoring history, in the hope of maybe finding treasure in a clearing somewhere. Welcome once more to The Carchive. Sometimes we chance upon a brochure which represents a category of car which sits at an extreme edge…

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