Classics Monthly

It's all a matter of timing

The Triumph Acclaim has been sitting under a cover in the workshop for about 18 months now, not because there was anything fundamentally wrong with it, but simply because I didn't need it on the road and could use the money it would have cost to tax and insure it for other vehicles such as the Fiat Panda. I did like the Panda and it was a really sweet car to drive, plus after the amount of work we had put into saving it I had always planned to keep it long-term.

However, as the MGB project has shown, plans are only made to be broken! After a final fling for the feature in this issue, the Panda's tax and insurance were

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