AMAZON FRESH

Surprise reveals are quite tricky these days, aren’t they? What you’re seeing here is a world-first exclusive magazine debut. Of course, regular readers will be very familiar with this car because we’ve been running monthly updates in the back of the mag for ages, the Meguiar’s face-off between Tom and Dale growing into a social entity way bigger than the sum of its parts. And those of you who were at the Players Classic at Goodwood in June will have pored over the Volvo in all its glory as the covers came off… and no doubt heard it a mile away, as Tom revved the nuts off that magnificently shouty engine. Screamer pipes are for winners, that’s just a fact of life.

Quite a curveball choice for a project though, isn’t it? In the last Tom vs Dale Meguiar’s head-to-head that ran in Fast Car, Tom opted to build a Renault 5 GT Turbo – a balls-to-the-wall wide-arch goliath, offering nineties vibes in spades with his own unique modern twist. So we weren’t really expecting him to size up an old