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The Carchive: Ford Maverick
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Due to pressures of limited space, The Carchive had to be rehomed. Fortunately, below our 1990-built house there lay, undisturbed for dozens of years a network of long-abandoned tunnels and corridors, so labyrinthine that I have yet to explore any further than the length of my longest piece of string, lest I find myself trapped…
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The Carchive: The Alfa Romeo 33
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Another week, another excuse for me to get myself all dusty and covered in cobwebs with a trawl through the dungeon of despair, this time turning left at the artificial Christmas tree and reaching into the discarded packing crate marked “Italian, 1985+” Alfa Romeo is a nameplate that has enjoyed something of a roller-coaster ride…
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The Carchive: Subaru XT Turbo
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It’s time to scoop out some more detritus from the inner reaches of the Carchive, this time from the bowing shelf marked Japanese and JDM. I’m a massive hypocrite, I’ve suddenly realised. In so much of what I write I offer much salutation to those marques who manage to keep their product simple and effective.…
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The Carchive: '67 Cadillac
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It’s 21:30 and I’m on my own, so I can do a bit of secretive Carchive raiding. This time I’ll need breathing apparatus and a flashlight, because I’m going deep down into the chasm that is my “American” section. In fact, what I brought back to the surface is one of my favourite brochure acquisitions.…
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The Carchive: Ford Escort MK1
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Time to take a poke around the dusty crevices of The Carchive and see what we find. It’s not always pretty, there are some absolute horrors lurking among the heros, but everything is worth equal scrutiny whether it be celebrated or derided. This time we’re looking at a car which has managed to fluke itself…
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The Carchive: The Fiat Panda
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Recently we all had a look at the well equipped, sharp looking Fiat Panda 4×4 of today. Festooned with decorative trinketry, though admittedly very tastefully done, the Panda has matured into a middle-class urban commuter with a surprising amount of sophistication. Time, then, to back-track a little to when the Panda was, well, quite a…
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The Carchive: Fiat Strada II
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Welcome back to The Carchive, the radically repackaged internet series charting the brochures that time forgot and landfill rejected. Those of you with access to the internet may recollect our visit to the world-stopping Fiat Strada (or Ritmo to glamorous continental types). Well, if you’ve been waiting for the sequel, then thrust your arms skywards…
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The Carchive: The Morris FG 4-Ton Truck
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So far this series has barely placed a foot in the exciting arena of commercial vehicles. This has been a major oversight on my part, as there is often as many wild claims within the brochure text for your average beast of burden, as there is for that of even the most swoonworthy piece of…
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The Carchive: The Dodge Spacevan
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It’s time for another instalment of The Carchive, the vehicle brochure based series that was voted #1 in a poll of sanitation workers in Newark, N.J. Thanks, guys. We’re here in the UK today, with a small van that carried a well recognised American badge. Truthfully, it had carried various identities before the Pentastar arrived,…
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The Carchive: The 1981 Ford Cargo
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This week I celebrate my Thirty-Second birthday; and that’s quite enough about that, thanks. Also brought into the world in Spring 1981 was a vehicle that went on to appear literally globally, in endless different permutations. You’ll all have seen them knocking about, I’m sure, but possibly with Sterling or Freightliner emblems glued to the…
