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AGAINST ALL ODDS

BORDER PATROL

I’ve written before about so-called survivor cars. More specifically, what constitutes a survivor car for me. But I got to thinking in the past week about survivor parts.

For most people, that might make you think of NOS, or ‘good used’ parts that have survived – against the odds – for decades, whether that be in dusty storage units, barns or on the shelves of an old VW

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