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Home is where the heart is

Ancient Greeks, literally meant ‘a longing to return home’ and, while classic car ownership generally involves some form of nostalgia, the term is more appropriate to the three cars you see here than to a lot of the exotic machinery you read about in . Not many of us grew up in households that featured Ferrari Daytonas or Lamborghini Miuras, but a lot

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