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CRAIG CHEETHAM

I’VE BEEN a fan of the XJ from a very early age. When I was five, in 1982, one of my friend’s dad was a chauffeur for the BBC and got some really swanky cars to drive. I clearly remember the change from W-reg Rover 3500s to Y-reg Daimler Sovereigns, which he used to ferry VIPs to and from the Beeb’s Manchester studios.

At weekends, he’d use these cars to transport his son

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