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ILL Flowers is a devout performance car nut with roots reaching right back to small beginnings at age 15. Back then, he shared ownership of an Austin A35 that featured a chrome dash. Ostensibly it was his mum's car, but while she used it during the week, Bill got to drive it on weekends. His next car was a Humber 80, which ran a hotted engine fed by twin Weber carbs. That was followed by a few Vauxhalls before his first American car, which was a ‘61 Ford Fairlane that was

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