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ROBIN FLETCHER SHORT BACK AND SIDES

According to my Collins dictionary, the phrase ‘short, back and sides’ means someone who has ‘their hair cut very short at the back and sides with slightly thicker, longer hair on the top of the head.’ This tonsorial explanation got me reflecting about the different ways we look at cars, because unless you own a drone or an inspection pit, it’s likely that you will rarely look at a car from above or below, which only really leaves the view from the front, the back or the sides.

I wrote down the other day the cars with

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