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Talking dirty

  at Benny’s workshop here in LA, and we’ve eaten our doughnuts before we get started on my ‘new’ Alfa Spider (see 249). I’m wearing my dirty clothes because it’s always dirty-clothes day at the shop. First on the list is getting the motor out, for our goal is to have the Italian car off to

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