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ROBERT COUCHER

egular readers might vaguely remember my classic car journey starting with a Lancia. But not anything as exotic as the ‘Steady Special’ or the Dilambda you will read about in these pages. In fact, my Lancia was a wreck that my father had dragged into the back of the garage as a donor car when parts were needed for his 6th Series Lancia Aurelia B20GT, which was in pretty solid condition. So much so, he didn’t really need a spares car, so he came up with the wheeze

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