‘it wasn’t all bad… we didn’t need to take the roof off’

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‘It wasn’t all bad… we didn’t need to take the roof

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Classic Cars Magazine

12 June 2024

Practical Classics

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Octane

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1939 Alvis 12/70 Special, 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite, 1972 Porsche 911T Berthold Dörrich WHEN MY BRITISH colleagues approached me as the publisher of Octane’s German edition to contribute to this secti

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Seventies special

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Octane

Bringing the roof down

‘They’re actually the same rear tyres as a Lamborghini Countach’s.’ A fun fact dispensed by this car’s eager owner, Dominic Taylor-Lane, as I’m hunched down behind it. It measures two full metres acro