First car driven was my mums jet black Mini Clubman with cool mini lite alloys, the day I passed my test. I drove us to the fish and chip shop in Bishop Auckland and back home...was so exciting
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Started to work for Reg Vardys in early 1996 at a Rover dealership in Darlington selling new cars, first company car was a Rover Knightsbridge (basically a Metro with nightfire red paint job and cheap 3 spoke alloy wheels)..terrible car to drive. After 2 months the boss said to me, sell that shitty metro and you will get something nicer.
In the course of the next 7 years I was lucky enough to drive lots of great cars, mostly when I moved to Reg Vardy Jaguar in 1997. Escort Cosworths, Porsche 993/968 club sport (awesome car) Jaguar XJR / XKr supercharger (beautiful car but to heavy..Ferrari 348 (not great), 355 was one of the best cars they ever made and brillinat to drive, after that booked at day at Oulton park circuit to be able to give it full on in a 355.
In the middle of that I bought an Ac Cobra Replica - sounded great with a big block V8, but handled badly so you could never drive it very fast but all my mates loved it. After that I had blown loads of cash and went sensible and bought a BMw 318is which was lovely...then decided to move to Thailand and sold it. Here have had the use of company cars, when i opened Jw Property I bought a Honda City...its a great car, fast enough, great on fuel, flappy paddle gear shift.. One car just remembered that I drove here was a bright yellow Lamborghini Gallardo..owned by a certain Builder here who has long gone. Drove it round the lake at Kao Tao to the entrance of the palace...rapidly..certain guy almost crapped his pants!
Another great memory was going to the British GP (1995 i think the year it smashed down). We took an S type Jag, we got parked in a very wet field..walked for 2 mins....then heard the first engine fire up.. well we ran like hell thru the fields..like excited school boys. He had a fantastic weekend...I will never forget the noise of those beasts of cars..absolutely epic....much more exciting racing compared to what we watch now. F1 needs to get its shit together...less downforce..more overtaking possibilities.