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Biography

Born with oil in his veins, Pedro Arrais has been in, on and around cars and trucks for over 30 years. His high-octane articles on anything that runs on four wheels appears in Friday's Drive section. Before he joined the Times Colonist full-time in 2006, his freelance articles appeared in a number of newspapers and magazines.

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