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I’m not really sure what kids put on their bedroom walls these days. I suspect it’s a mix of computer game heroes, footballers and K-pop stars. But in the Seventies...
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A fried egg. That’s what I see when I look at a map of Thruxton. A kind of runny, amorphous blob. And the same goes for Goodwood and Castle Combe, two more UK race tracks...
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Having recently moved back to my adopted country – la belle France – I was in need of a daily runabout. As I have access to a ‘sensible’ vehicle in my better half’s new Land Rover...
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Never look back. Or so I am told. Keep your eyes fixed firmly on the future. ‘The best car I ever made is the one I have not made yet,’ or so Enzo Ferrari used to say...
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I can’t see them but I know the suspension arms are a blur, strobing like the wings of a hummingbird. On a bumpy road, very light springs and lots of travel mean...
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Driving a VW Golf GTI Clubsport Edition 40 across to the Bill Gwynne Rally School about four years ago on a cold, grey morning, I remember thinking, ‘I should sell the Escort...'
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When you buy an old car, the moment does not arrive at once. It’s not where you want it to be nor quite how you want it to be. Usually, the moment comes later...