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DIRTY STUFF

WHEN I was young and didn’t know much, I went to work in a used-car yard that specialised in selling sports cars. I worked the usual stuff: winding back speedos; fixing cars without spending money; using my smarts on stuff I didn’t know.

One car was in a group of swaps from another yard where the principals had agreed to get rid of stock they couldn’t sell in return for cars that they might. This particular

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