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FROM PETROL … TO THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE

I’ve loved petrol and diesel-powered cars since I was a little boy back in the 1970s. Back then, my older brother and I used to compete on our level of knowledge of cars by listening to oncoming cars and guessing what would drive by. Common vehicles at the time would have been a Peugeot 1,8 504 or 404, maybe a 1,2VW Beetle or Datsun. I also knew the Land Rover Defender, Citroën DS20, BMW and Jaguar engines very well, as well as the number of gears each had.

I had the privilege of growing up on a farm along a major highway. Opposite our farm was a famous drinking hole every passing car would stop at. When the cars and big trucks pulled off, we would count the number of gears until it reached its top gear. As a result, we ended up knowing how