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1936 Austin Seven Ruby

charming little Ruby in September 2019 after searching for it for a couple of years, because my father had owned it during the 1980s. I come from a family in the motor trade and we had garages in Newbury and Wantage, the latter set up by my father and having the BMC agency. On his regular visits to Hartwells in Oxford for warranty work on the BMC cars, he would see this Ruby in a pub car park opposite, gradually

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