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Barn Find the Holy Grail
On hearing these words separately, the listener may envisage a country scene with an American red barn in the first case, and the verb ‘to find’, meaning ‘to look’ in the second. Taken together, however, the words take on mystique, giving rise to vis
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Dump The Clutch And Bury The Gas!
Drag racing and hot rodding do not spin everyone’s crank, that’s a given. But in the early ’70s, particularly around Auckland and possibly Christchurch, a fascination for hot rods and quarter-mile racing burst out of the woodwork. I was entranced by
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Toyota Corona 1988 Gli Amon Sport
The Toyota Corona Amon Sport was one of the first mainstream Japanese cars with a fuel-injected engine, and it was an upmarket model in its day. My car is likely to have been assembled in Thames. It is a sedan with a manual gearbox and manual window

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