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Buyers continue to stump up for restored minters – but barn-finds continue to surprise the experts too

The classics you love, drive and restore

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.