“To see one McLaren F1 is a vanishingly rare experience. But a dozen?”
ANDREW FRANKEL
A couple of weeks back, a few old friends got together after what felt like far too long. We made sandwiches for lunch, messed about on a boat during the afternoon, for we had met by the seaside, then had a barbecue and a few beers in the evening. Nothing of any importance happened.
So why mention it now? Because the careers of those present have gone in dramatically different directions since we all worked on Autocar in the 1990s. A couple are extremely famous, one supplies copy to a large number of the country’s biggest newspapers, another edits a magazine and I do this. Yet did we take this opportunity to catch up with each other’s lives, and their twists and turns since we were last all together? Of course we didn’t. We just talked about cars. And I could not help but think how lucky I was, how lucky we were, to have this common glue.