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Back came a Spider

realise that I last drove this elegant Lancia Aurelia Spider more than 30 years ago. Imported from Naples to Cape Town, this very car was bought by my late father in 1967 as a project. He restored and repainted it in the carport and we knocked about in it to the salty beaches of Muizenberg, making fast runs up the lee

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