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Boredom BUSTER

Covid-19 did the impossible, silencing every rumbling V8 in the nation and leaving the motorways deserted, still and quiet, in a state of eeriness and emptiness. For some, a collection of dust would settle on the bonnets; for others it was an opportunity to work away in the garage to distract their attention from the contaminated outside world.

Weeks passed, and finally people could open the garage doors with a strange, surreal sense of freedom.

During these weeks, Blair Holmes had an idea quietly germinating: a weekend away with the boys to get me, Kevin Brooke, out of home and on the road.

I’ve owned my GTS for near-on three years, and Blair was planning one of its first decent road trips and offering me a distraction from the day-to-day struggles of

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