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ROBIN FLETCHER OH HAPPY DAYS

COMMENT ROBIN FLETCHER

BIO: Welcome to journalist and editor Robin Fletcher, who is our newest columnist. Robin has never worked in the motor trade, but he loves cars, has driven in 12 different countries and once changed the front brake pads on his first Metro.

No-one else was the slightest bit interested in cars in my house when I was a boy growing up in various locations in and around Oxfordshire, Birmingham and Worcestershire. Not even my dad who had a secession of fancy fleet motors which today would probably fetch a lot more than they cost in

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