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The classics you love, drive and restore

BONHAMS GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED. 11 JULY

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.

ACA, KING’S LYNN. 14-15 JUNE

For its inaugural auction held during the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este weekend (p12), Broad Arrow’s 24-25 May event at the nearby Villa Erba estate produced a remarkable reflection of the show car

Nostalgia drove Paul Nicholes on to recreate the family favourite of his childhood