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‘Please Andrew, don’t be doing any more of that with this car.’ The words belonged to Lotus sales manager Scott Walker, the car to Colin Chapman until his untimely death...
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A few years ago, PJ O’Rourke – widely regarded as America’s funniest writer – read a story I wrote about the 1960 MGA 1600 I had when I was 19 and emailed me this note...
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Meeting royalty couldn't be this intimidating. I'm beginning to wonder if anyone who works for Ferdinand Piëch has ever had a beer with the bloke. Here at the 1998 Geneva show...
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Never meet your heroes? Maybe this time would be okay. I was in California to interview the co-owner of the Newman-Haas Racing team, one Paul Leonard Newman, almost 20 years ago...
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I saw a Maserati Bora streaking along the Mall in London the other day, nipping past the traffic until its driver – making the most of going down the gearbox...
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There were a couple of crummy garages down at far the end of the Le Mans pits, just where the grandee-team cars would open up the throttles as they rejoined the 24-hour race...
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Geoff Lawson, a former Design Director of Jaguar, once compared our line of work to making movies: ‘Designing cars is like making a film – most of it ends up on the cutting-room floor...'
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Whisky might have been involved, the fire burned low and the dog had gone to his bed. It was at this witching time that my brother posed the question: what are the best cars in literature...?