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TOP 10 WAYS TO ENJOY CAR CULTURE IN LOCKDOWN

It’s a tricky one, the coronavirus. For years, we’ve believed that the way to deal with the apocalypse would be for us to go to The Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all this to blow over. Except that we can’t. The Winchester’s closed and we’re not allowed near each other. These are strange times, we’ve never dealt with anything like this before, and it affects pretty much every aspect of our lives… not least our fondness for doing silly stuff with cars. After all, for a lot of us the calendar year is dictated by a specific sequence of show dates. And many of the shows are getting cancelled. At the time of writing, there’s still a fair few that are scheduled to go ahead later in the year, but this is all such a weird situation that we really just don’t know what’s what.

But we shouldn’t let this defeat us. No, we can’t just ‘keep calm and carry on’ because that’s exactly how viruses spread. But that doesn’t mean our beloved hobby is going to die. Look at Fast Car, for instance – it’s stuffed full of cool feature cars, modding advice, and views across the global tuning scene, just like it has been since the 1980s. The scene has weathered many storms in that time. We may all be largely working from home but we’re still here for you. And there’s

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