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When the chips are down

MY New Year’s resolution was to set about my late mother’s aged and mouldy yellow Lupo with a sponge, get it MOT’d and fit for resale. Despite its huge sentimental value, it was due to head for the scrapyard; but now it might have a reprieve.

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