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Jack Grover

@Balloon_Fish

Rather too keen on old Citroens. @ClassicBuyer Production Editor and one half of the @classicsworlduk podcast. Did a blog that's now becoming fossilised

 Peterborough, UK
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Joined March 2012
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The Classics World Podcast is HERE! In Ep1, @Balloon_Fish, @Phil100100 and I discuss MG, E10 fuel and "smart" motorways... youtu.be/y2SHTdcwZCY

E10 Fuel Classic Car Disasters! Are Smart Motorways DANGEROUS? Classics World Podcast Ep1

WIN With Lancaster Insurance: https://bit.ly/3BUKBKb Welcome to...

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129 years ago today (10 August 1893) Rudolf Diesel’s first prototype diesel compression-ignition engine, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time. bit.ly/2aLlBHS #OnThisDay #Throwback #diesel
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Could this be Cowgate / King St? One things for sure, the street doesn’t work. Pizza restaurants spilling out, but obstructing pedestrians. Wheelchair users in the road. Cars littered everywhere. Cyclists unsure what to do. @peterboroughtel @PboroughMatters @paulbristow79
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Like so many public plazas across the Netherlands, De Plaats in The Hague was once filled with parked cars. The historic nature of these cities did not preclude them from succumbing to the automobile. But critically, they've spent the past few decades correcting those mistakes.
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Endurance is Found
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Stereotype bingo here @newmacdroitwich #citroen #oldskool #classiccars #retro
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Hayao Miyazaki, founder of #studioghibli, has been driving to work in a Citroën 2CV for more than half a century. Here is that story. autoweek.com/car-life/classi…
Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli and the Citroën 2CV

Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli and the Citroën 2CV

How Japan's greatest living animator takes inspiration from a little French car.

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.@BorisJohnson visited a hospital in Cambridgeshire today - 💥 staff weren’t told about the visit. 💥 doctors weren’t allowed to ask questions. Watch this medical student telling the truth about the Tory war on our health👇 xitter.gq/TheBirmingham6/status/…
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edie@ediemmill18 Feb 2019
“lord sugar has challenged the apprentices to launch a new political party”
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The search begins - bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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70 years ago today - The very first Morris Minor #car in Britain went on sale, costing a whopping £382 😁👐💰🚗 A 'new generation' of small cars? What do you think? bit.ly/2PrtB3X #news #365Motoring
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ICE Library@ICELibrary27 Sep 2018
Stockton and Darlington railway was officially opened #onthisday 1825. The map shows the original planned route from the 1821 prospectus.
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Cracking out the Mondeo Man anthems for the final morning of our road trip. #MondeoToBarcelona #andback
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Well we’ve successfully completed 1000 miles on our road trip with 0 hiccups. Here’s to the next 1000! #MondeoToBarcelona
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We’ve made it to the top! Altitude no issue for the mighty Mondeo! #MondeoToBarcelona
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28 years ago today (6 June 1990), British rally driver Tony Pond became the first to average 100 mph around the Isle of Man TT Motor Bike race circuit in a standard production car - a Rover Vitesse. This record stood until 2011. bit.ly/2rHYaa2
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"Come as quickly as possible old man: the engine room is filling up to the boilers." - Titanic to Carpathia. #Titanic106
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Today is the day! It's the 50th anniversary of the formation of British Leyland Motor Corporation! Here's the full story of how it happened - and what the state of play with in the immediate aftermath. The numbers will blow you away... aronline.co.uk/bl50/how-the-…
50 years of British Leyland – How the great merger happened

50 years of British Leyland – How the great merger happened

Keith Adams picks through the numbers to describe fully the merger between Leyland Motors and British Motor Corporation. It was an optimistic time.

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"I can bring you the result of our exculsive #ExitPoll which produced a 100% result for 'Mind-Your-Own-Business-You-Nosy-Bastard'." #GE2017
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I will never forget this chart for as long as I live.
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1985 Plymouth Horizon: Regular Car Reviews youtu.be/ZF2lRNqd-LI?a
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