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CAR OF THE YEAR CHARISMA

Dear As a long-time subscriber, I’ve followed your Car of the Year competition for a couple of decades now and I have to say that the Cadillac which won the most recent competition must be the highest-quality vehicle to ever win and yet, amazingly, the restoration was all undertaken by the owner. I realise some may say he has an unfair advantage, being a car restorer by trade, but I had the pleasure of meeting Steve and seeing the car at last year’s NEC Classic Motor Show and what struck me when we chatted was how his background was not in American cars, but was largely self-taught from

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