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WAXING LYRICAL

A professional rivalry is always healthy in the workplace. This is true of any job – salesman vie for supremacy on the monthly targets chart, racing drivers need to earn more points than their teammates, politicians endeavour to accrue the largest and most spurious expense accounts, advertising execs battle it out to see who can have the longest lunches… and at Meguiar’s UK, the rivalry is rooted in who can build the coolest car.

What’s that now? Don’t they clean them rather than build them? Ah, dear reader, these people are polymaths; they don’t just work in the job they do because they’re passionate about beading and foam concentrations (although that is of course also true). These are car guys through and through, born petrolheads, they just can’t help themselves. You’ve probably spotted that we’ve been chronicling the Tom v Dale build in our Fast Projects pages; the eagle-eyed will also have been following their efforts on the fellas’ Instagram pages, each demonstrating increasing levels of exasperation and panic in the run-up to the Players Classic. The annual Goodwood-based

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