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JAY LENO

hat’s the best way to buy a classic car? I’ll get to that in a minute. Let’s start with the worst way, which has to be seeing it at a show or an auction and buying it off the floor. I know this because I’ve done it myself more than once. There’s an old adage: if you restore it properly it’s almost impossible to make money out of it. That’s because most classics (and just about any vehicle more than 50 years old) were built at a time when

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