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The Past and the Spurious

awyer, Historic racer and now author Paul Griffin distils some pretty murky waters here. Of course, before the classic car hobby became an industry it was the Wild West, with all sorts of long-lost cars being recreated from scratch and ‘discovered’, identities

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