Keith WR Jones
@keithwrjones
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Freelance automotive facts fetishist丨motoring journalist and researcher丨car brochure and ephemera collector丨UK CotY judge丨usually unfunny
Lincolnshire, UK
Joined February 2009
GEEK REQUEST Car literature archive expansion continues, I’m currently looking for: • @autocar (seven post-WW2 issues, dates on request) • Motor 1945-62 • UK brochures and price lists in print/pdf formats Slide into my DMs if you’re offloading any of the above.
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Still plenty to do before I’ll make the Autocar Road Test Record available to pre-order, but this is a small yet significant development milestone passed.
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I appear to have happened upon a pre-watershed episode of @BeechgroveGdn — behave yersel’, Brian.
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Data-checking progress for the Autocar Road Test Record book continues to gain momentum. Note to self: just as it’s not a good idea to look down when at a great height, it probably wasn’t wise to count how many of the spreadsheet’s cells contained something or other.
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Patrick loved the new 12 cylinder model, but sadly the cost to run it meant he lost his shirt trying to keep it on the road - c. 1260, British Library, Add. 62925, f. 83r
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Spent the past week with this Pistachio Green Kia EV3 — in short, it’s bloody excellent. And ventilated seats in this humidity? **Chef’s kiss**
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RIP Ian Fraser. Many will have read his work or been absorbed by one of his publications (CAR or Supercar Classics most likely), others owe their careers in this industry to him. Under his ownership CAR inspired, entertained and educated so many of us. A true publishing pioneer.
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Ambrose’s side hustle as a Donald Trump impersonator has dried up in recent weeks.
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Long time no…Tweet? Anywho, I’m heading to @HagertyUK FOTU this coming weekend. For the fact I collect too many magazines already, I’m looking to sell my collections of both ‘Magneto’ and ‘The Road Rat’ magazine. Single issues or complete collections, please DM for more info.
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Not a scene I relished finding this morning — some storage boxes tumbled overnight, depositing their contents, dunching both my laptop and monitor in the process. Remarkably, the only casualty was a webcam — not _that_ sort — and a now sorry-looking succulent.
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This? No, not a magic eye image but a sectional snapshot of a database containing more than 2 million metrics collated from @autocar's 1920-2020 road tests. Foundations of my upcoming Autocar Road Test Record now complete, the rest of the book build will be comparatively quick.
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Today I used a Citroën ë-SpaceTourer as a mobile office — because air-con — and seemingly had divine intervention beaming down on me
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Sheridan Smith will play Elon and Jim Broadbent will play Trump. All set to music.
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In today’s episode of ‘Lifestyle of a Sad B******’ I’m jaunting 191 miles Bristolwards in this Citroën ë-SpaceTourer to collect 1800 brochures I’ve agreed to rehome
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Never struggled to sell a car on AT before this one. One of the cheapest working E350 CGIs in good nick, spotless inside, Full Benz/specialist history, 11 months MOT thousands spent in the last year, newish Michelin PS5s, heated and ventilated memory seats... 1/2
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