Fast Car

TEENAGE KICKS

that’s just life. You’ve got to push the boundaries and find the limits of what you can achieve (and what you can get away with). Although for Mark Shepstone – known to everybody as ‘Sheep’, so that’s what we’ll call him – this idea was taken rather literally. A Citroën Saxo Mischief, to be precise, the special-edition hatchback in vivid Inbetweeners-yellow that he started out with when he first got his licence. “I loved that car,” says Sheep. “As much as it was held together with rust and Irn-Bru cans, it was still my baby. It didn’t really get too many mods; the odd painted badge and new speakers, and obviously chrome Lexus lights! That car made the journey for a 1.6 Astra SXi, which after less than six months of owning cost me my licence – don’t speed and use

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