WHEN WE WERE pulled over by the security people at passport control, and they started waving swabs over the steering wheel and doorhandles, I felt a momentary stab of alarm. This car spent 50 years living in Los Angeles. The chances of it not having had a close encounter with a banned substance are pretty slim…
In fact, as the nice lady from Eurotunnel explained later, they were checking for explosives rather than drugs. But it made for a good story over dinner. We’d come to France art editor Rob Hefferon and my 1966 Mustang – on a Eurotunnel press trip with half-a-dozen assorted other media types. We were a diverse bunch: a couple of food bloggers, an online Ferrari club organiser (driving his beautiful 328 GTS), a luxury magazine publisher in a borrowed McLaren press car – and columnist Stephen Bayley and his wife Flo.
