PICK ANY TWO VEHICLES FROM PAUL Cowland’s large and ever-growing collection of cars and you can be reasonably sure that nobody else in the world has that particular pairing. Take the last two added to the stable: Dodge Viper RT/10 and… er, a Vauxhall Frontera. Pre-facelift, naturally. How about a modern Ford Mustang GT rubbing shoulders with a classic Subaru 360 kei car? Maybe someone, somewhere, has both a Mk1 Renault Espace and a Mk2 Golf GTI race car? On second thoughts, maybe not.
The thing is, these unlikely Googlewhack car combos have a chance to form because Cowland never sells anything. They simply amass, filling ever more unit space as if they’re drawn to it, like specs of dust coalescing to eventually form a planet. If you own anything rare and interesting, you should probably avoid driving through Nottinghamshire, in case the gravitational pull starts drawing it in…
In the finest traditions of man maths, there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for Cowland owning, at his estimate, 78 cars. ‘It started about 15 years ago,’ he says. ‘At that point I had seven or eight cars – as I’m sure you’ll agree, a sensible, normal number to have.
‘But it was my Impreza 22B
