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Together with a wide-ranging introduction, this book reproduces 60 of Stephen Bayley&rsquo;s popular monthly columns for <i>Octane<\/i>, the outstanding classic car magazine where, for more than 10 years, he has provided the most consistent and insightful commentary on car culture, often based on privileged access to industry insiders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A witty and insightful account of the life and times of the automobile, by one of the world&rsquo;s great design writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19939,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5595],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19132","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-cars-transport","7":"author-by-author-stephen-bayley","8":"publisher-circa-press","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Age of Combustion - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: The Age of Combustion, Pages: 228 Pages, Publish Date: 18th Jun 2021, Author: Stephen Bayley, ISBN: 9781911422136. 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