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    TYRESOME

    Jun 22, 2022 3 minutes
    JON FAINE

    THE 1949 Light 15 Citroen needed new tyres. Simple. Go to the tyre shop, decide whether to go the cheap Chinese ones or the fancy French ones from the Bibendum people, swipe the credit card and drive away. How hard can it be?

    Really hard, it turns out. First of all, Bernie Haddaway, the wonderful man who owned this car from 1951 until his death in 2015 had many years ago re-rimmed the wheels to make it easier and cheaper to replace tyres when they needed to.

    The original tyres that Michelin supplied to

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