The Road Rat – Issue 1
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The Road Rat Issue 1. Exquisitely printed on a mix of heavy gloss and matt art papers, Edition No.1/Sanction Two of The Road Rat is a beautiful thing. 244 pages (it weighs around 1 kilo) it is at once absolutely of the moment – Lewis Hamilton, the Aston Martin Valkyrie – yet simultaneously timeless as we dwell on the making of the modern Ferrari and the decline of the Mercedes SL.
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