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PATINA PLUS

DAVE MORLEY GIVES YOU THE CAR ADVICE YOU NEED – AND MAYBE A BIT ABOUT LIFE AS WELL

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I have a couple of mates, Tim and Mick, who are the sort of blokes for whom hauling dead trucks out of a gully, in winter with a 25-ton excavator and 100m of chain holds no fears. Which means they’ve often got interesting projects on the go, but participation is far from a low-risk activity.

Even so, when Tim rang me to ask what I was doing mid-week, I figured something might be up. It was. A barn find, no less (and, yes, I know Torrens

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