Top Gear and The Grand Tour star who now runs DriveTribe and The Smallest Cog classic vehicle restoration workshop
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1I’ve wanted an E-type ever since I first sat in one at a Birmingham car dealership as a child. My car is a 1962 roadster sold new by the Jaguar racer and dealer Peter Lindner and I wouldn’t change a thing. I tell myself that if everything goes wrong, then at least I’ll still have an E-type.
2I was wearing this Rolex Sea-Dweller when I infamously crashed the Rimac during a hillclimb. We went end-over-end and my hand was trapped under the seatbelt, so I had to ditch the watch. The car was burning for days with thermal runaway (Rimac has now fixed this, note!) so the watch burned, too. Rimac later presented it back to me in a display case.
3I’ve had this Globetrotter suitcase ever since I was doing the car-launch circuit for Granada TV’s Men and Motors. It’s had the bejayzus kicked out of it, the handles are held on with cable-ties and it’s stained all down one side where oil leaked onto it in a car boot, but it’s a piece of home.
4When my daughters Izzie and Willow were very small, they solemnly presented me with a fake Cartier ring that had been taped to the front of one of their children’s magazines. I wore it every day until it started to get too thin, then bought a real Cartier and keep the fake one in its box.
5A folding knife is the one thing you need in the wilderness and I’ve used mine in the Amazon rainforest to free a sloth that had become entangled in a vine. I’d like to say that it then shot off, but of course…
6Choosing just one motorbike is a real nightmare because they are my favourite things; your body works
