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• The motorsport legend who runs an MOT centre: Autocar meets Ronnie Grant

  16-06-2019 07:00 via autocar.co.uk
  Grant has run Clapham North MOT under the London railway arches since 1960
  Ronnie Grant started racing aged 41 but soon made up for lost time, with John Barnard and Patrick Head as his tech crew and Senna as a rivalSome folk quit motor racing to avoid death but former Formula 3 driver Ronnie Grant took it up to feel alive. 
  “I’d been overdoing things, running the garage and my fleet of 50 taxis, when I started vomiting blood,” he tells me. “I was rushed into hospital
  
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• A day in the life of Britain's exotic car transporters

  16-06-2019 07:00 via autocar.co.uk
  Rare and expensive cars require bespoke expert care and attention for transportation
  Shifting expensive supercars is a risky business, and as we discover, not just from a financial point of view
  Lewis Grimshaw has learned the hard way that whoever takes a car off one of his firm’s transporters should be the person who loaded it, too. 
  “It was a Subaru Impreza rally car and as I loosened the last wheel strap, it started to roll back,” he says. “Instinctively, I grabbe
  
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