I’m no petrol-head. I cycle to work in London, and although I do drive sometimes, I have never owned a real car. But when I was just a few years old, I used to know the name and make of every car on the road, and quite a few that weren’t. I don’t think anyone in our bit of Manchester drove a Tomaso Mangusta, but if I’d seen one I would have known it instantly.
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