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riting about the ’79 Riviera this month got me thinking about what feels like a lifetime of Bay Window ownership. It began when, at age five or six (around 1980) my neighbour, Malcolm, had a Chianti Red ’72 Panel Van. He was a painter and decorator and one incident that sticks in my mind saw my best mate running across the cul-de-sac we lived in for ice cream, causing Malcolm to skid-stop

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