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WHY WE LOVE...Daily-driver classics

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February 2023

Yes, I'm afraid that's me in the picture on the right, with the superfluity of hair and the jeans that are too short. My excuse (for the hair, at least) is that it was 1990 and I was carrying out some lunchtime servicing on my recently acquired 1976 Plymouth Gran Fury.

WHY WE LOVE...Daily-driver classics

The Plymouth cost me 1500 quid, had been roller-painted matt black by its previous owner and was an ex-US police car. Built on the same platform as a Dodge Monaco, it was a real-life Blues Brothers machine and genuinely did have a 'cop motor, a 440 cubic-inch plant'.

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