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The 1,000-Mile Shakedown Run

“But the truth is that I do love to get behind the wheel of my cars whenever the chance arises.”

On these pages, on plenty of occasions, I have heartily advocated driving our classics. I’m not exactly a preservation kind of guy. The only garage queen I’ve ever personally been acquainted with lived at the heart of a wasp’s nest I had to eradicate last year.

Really, from my ivory tower here on page 92, it’s an

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