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Tales of the … UNEXCEPTIONAL

IMAGINE you could go back 30 years to a supermarket car park on a Saturday afternoon, where you’re surrounded by hundreds of the most mainstream and mundane family cars ever created. Would you seize on such an opportunity, or pass it up? For most people, even car enthusiasts, there’s little excitement in a sea of Toyota Carinas, Rover Metros and Ford Escorts. But to a sizeable group of people, and one that seems to be getting bigger every year, the perfect way to spend a day is to pore over rows and rows of the most ordinary cars to ever turn a wheel. Welcome to the Festival of the Unexceptional, or FOTU

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