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The meaning of drive

SCHOLARLY. THAT’S THE BEST WORD for this discussion on the future of automotive history. It’s hard to summarise how much long-time collector and archivist Miles Collier packs into this wide-ranging work, with its references to Neolithic axes and Degas paintings. When he talks about the “artefactual narrative” inherent in a historic vehicle – the history recorded by the physical evidence of patches, reshaping, old paint, plus photos, records and memories

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