I SUCCUMBED. OR, as younger people say, I caved. I’d been looking at my Phantom’s bodywork (the victim of a blow-over respray prior to my renewed ownership, after a white ‘wrap’ was removed) and alway

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BRENT, NORTH LONDON

‘IT’S A BIT like seeing an old girlfriend again,’ muses Nicholas Mee as his former Venturi Atlantique 300 press car glints in the sun. ‘There are a lot of mixed feelings.’ Nearly 30 years have passed