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If it hadn’t been for a keen online rival bidder, you would now be reading about how I’d just bought a Renault Avantime and how I was embarking on an ill-judged foray into weird French car ownership.

On visiting a specialist, be they strangers or old friends, I always look in the skips (I found a Jaguar E-type bonnet in the last one I checked) and the ‘graveyard’ area around the back. I’m just abo

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