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Fringe benefits

Fiat’s diminutive, mid-engined X1/9s of the 1970s and ’80s were once a familiar sight on UK roads – until the combination of Italian tinwork and British road salt killed most of them off. There are now thought to be fewer than 300 left in the country.

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