There is a young man. Just starting out, in his first year as a qualified GP. He listens as a salesman talks up a gleaming new car with a pop-up sunroof, cassette-tape stereo, ABS. But before he can explain the anti-skid system, something causes them to look up. That’s when the young man catches sight of a soft-top two-seater in the corner of the forecourt. That’s for sale? he asks, already walking over, taking in the character and refinement of the older, classic design. Six months later, in heavy rain, its brakes fail. The young man’s father is performing surgery in the same hospital when,
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