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Cheap and cheerful on the Tomcat

As I have too many cars which aren’t all old enough to be tax free, I can’t afford or justify taxing them all at once. So while I’ve been enjoying the Alfa for the last two months, the Rover Tomcat has been languishing in a corner looking sorry for itself and collecting muddy paw prints from the neighbourhood moggies.

Before swapping them over, to give the 145 a chance of shrugging off storage dirt I gave it the best clean of its life, doing everything properly, starting with a

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