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Hamster's wheels - Posted by Richard Hammond at 7:17 pm on Tuesday October 7, 2008 I’ve just moved house. Nothing unusual in that and the move itself was a pretty standard, run-of-the-mill house move: utter misery, everything lost, broken or won’t fit/wrong colour/too old/too new/not ours.Having shunted our pile of Ikea tat around the place for a day or two and grown shit-bored of trying to join in with the business of arranging things in kitchen cupboards and the kids’ bedrooms, I got down to the more exciting and, frankly more important business, of moving my cars to the new place.If that sounds rather grand, ‘moving my cars’, then please don’t let it conjure up visions of a fleet of transporters bearing delicate supercars and priceless Pebble Beach regulars. My ‘collection’ is quite a long way from that of, say, Nick Mason.Yes, there are some posh ones: a Ferrari 550, a rather minty Mustang 390GT and a Porsche. But then the list quickly deteriorates into the leftovers from a low-rent, back street car auction.There’s a little romance, perhaps, to the brace of fifty year old Land Rovers, the Spitfire is charming in a rather British, hopeless sort of a way and then Oliver of course, the 1963 Opel Kadett I drove across Botswana on Top Gear before shipping him home, brings with him a certain charm.But there really is absolutely not a scrap of charm to be found lurking in the rusty Vauxhall Firenza I bought to restore but sort of forgot to finish and the Volvo estate I picked up because I was fascinated to discover it had covered only 30,000 miles in its fifteen years on this planet only to find that the first owner had not kept the miles down because he wanted to preserve a masterpiece but because it was awful to drive.Those and, to be honest, most of the rest of my ‘collection’ are a bit shit. But they are mine and incredibly precious to me, and the business of homing all my little pigeons, tucking them in corners, under covers and in barns will only be interrupted by the imminent start of the new series. Or a flight to Vietnam…

He's not all that far removed from us lot really...... :wink:
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