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What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

Some cars take you instantly back to a time and place, even if it’s one to which you didn’t get first-hand exposure yourself. Such was the case with a 1960 Pontiac I spotted at the Gloucestershire Vin

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Bright idea, because I’m on holiday: I reckon I’ll take our four-year-old Dacia Duster, grime-stained from cathartic trips to the dump, for a professional wash and polish. I head to my usual place and

If people ask what I do,” says Cotswolds-based retired inventor Richard Gray, “I’m tempted to say ‘the management of decay’ because the house is falling down, the cars are always going wrong and my bo