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As many of you will have spotted, there’s been a recent trend focusing on cars we rarely see any more, which were previously overlooked. We’re not just talking desirable performance models, even elusive and once disposable cars from mundane marques such as Proton, Daihatsu and Hyundai seem to now have a strong following. In a way, you could say Jonathan Beech must have been way ahead of his time, having developed a curious fascination with unusual old everyday cars that are now deemed to have reached a classic status.

“I bought a 1971 Mk4 Zodiac Executive in the late 1990s when they

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