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ALT My grey 1970 Citroen D Special
ALT A blue-grey Mercedes C107 with a tan interior, with the numberplate RAF1, parked at the side of the road.
ALT My grey Citroen D Special in my garage
ALT A picture of the door mirror of my Volvo, showing the glare from the headlight of a Honda CR-V behind.
ALT My grey 1970 Citroen D Special
ALT HMS Hurworth in port at night
ALT View from the back seat of my Citroen D Special, inside my garage
ALT My Paris Blue Volvo 480 Turbo
ALT My Volvo 480 Turbo parked next to a Charge Yellow Honda E, both viewed from the rear
ALT A red Mk1 Citroen BX16 TRS
ALT The dashboard of a Mk1 Citroen BX, showing the rotating drum speedometer, digital bar rev counter and iconogram of the car
ALT The seats of my Citroen D Special - tan leather in tatty but usable condition
ALT The driving position of my Citroen D Special, showing the brown leather seats.
ALT My Volvo 480 Turbo on a snowy lane with high verges topped with hedges and a small sign post, and the sun setting behind it
ALT Two Volvo 480 Turbos, one in Paris Blue and the other in black.
ALT A British Racing Green Rover 827Si against a backdrop of the Bristol Channel at Portishead
ALT The view from behind the wheel of Chris’s 19,000-mile Rover 827Si
ALT My TVR Chimaera, viewed from head-on, parked in a gravel car park.
ALT A Renault Laguna Mk1 in mauve, parked at a cliff top viewpoint, facing out to sea
ALT A period publicity picture of an orange Peugeot 304 Cabriolet on a golf course
ALT Grey suburbs, part of a tower block and a graffitied wall, viewed from a train in motion
ALT A Citroen Ami parked in a small parking space between two other cars at the side of the road
ALT The front end of my Citroën D Spécial in my garage.
ALT A 1983 Citroën BX in silver, viewed from side on, with a background of a striped concrete wall
ALT A Citroen Ami in a parent and toddler parking bay next to a Range Rover Sport
ALT The interior of my new office
ALT A silver MG 4 and a white Peugeot e-208 in a gravel car park at Bicester Heritage
ALT My Volvo 480 Turbo in a car park, looking small next to a Renault Captur and BMW 1 Series
ALT A front on view of my Citroen D Spécial
ALT A front three quarter view of a Mk2 Focus 1.6 Ghia saloon in Tonic
ALT A screenshot of an eBay advert for a Vauxhall Agila in which the photo of the car is upside down
ALT A screenshot of an eBay advert for a Ford Fiesta, from the se seller, in which the photo of the car is upside down (again).
ALT A red Toyota Auris at a used car dealership with the numberplate X12 DAD
ALT My petrol blue Skoda Superb TDI estate, parked in a woodland car park, front three quarter view
ALT My petrol blue Skoda Superb TDI estate, parked in a French motorway service station, in sunshine, rear three quarter view
ALT A red Mk1 Citroën BX Mk1 parked in a layby
ALT A rear view of a beige Morris Marina Coupe on a four-post ramp in the lowered position.
ALT The above view, now with a glass of whiskey balanced on the front seats
ALT View astern from HMS Hurworth leaving port, with pilot boat in the foreground and aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth in the background
ALT HMS Hurworth at dawn
ALT Me in the captain’s chair aboard HMS Hurworth
ALT My Volvo 480 Turbo
ALT An image of Pass The Picasso, a beige Citroen Xsara Picasso with 513,000 miles on the clock, viewed from the front, parked at the side of a country lane
ALT An image of Pass The Picasso, a beige Citroen Xsara Picasso with 513,000 miles on the clock, viewed from the rear, with a panoramic view of countryside in the backgeojnd
ALT The front cover of a Ford audio handbook circa 2007, which shows a man lying on a wooden floor, with an expression of hardcore ecstasy on his face, punching the air with both fists. And two hi-fi speakers positioned inches from, and pointing at, his head
ALT A rear three quarter view of my blue Ford Focus saloon
ALT A TVR Chimaera 4.0 in Crystal Verde metallic that is for sale on Collecting Cars
ALT M’y Volvo 480 Turbo parked at the side of the road in the night, wet.
ALT My blue Mk2 Ford Focus saloon on thé beach at Seasalter. The car is viewed from the rear three quarter angle, in front of a large black and yellow height restriction arch, behind which sits the beach and the sea. Next to the arch is a single storey building with a sign that says “Seasalter Water Ski Club” in cursive script, which I take to be the home of the Seasalter Water Ski Club.
ALT A view of the beach at Seasalter, with the sun setting over Sheppey in the distance.
ALT A white Toyota GR86 in a motorway services car park, front three quarter view, at night, lit by street lamps
ALT A white Toyota GR86 in a car park at dusk, rear three quarter view
ALT A picture of a bottle of screen wash on the bonnet of a car. The windscreen behind is divided into four sections using masking tape. Two of the sections have been sprayed and cleaned as part of the test; the other two are still coated with a layer of muck, ready for testing.