Chris Harris

So it feels exactly like they were new.

Yeah.

It's steering has lovely slickness and lack of friction.

The others have lifted the racks, getting a bit worn.

And, and I think the engine in this one is just, some of them maybe were better.

There's just an absolute honey.

This one is, it's just, and the gearbox and the relationship between the clutch, it's just,

It's a joy to drive.

What I did do was I took a moment because I had to drive down the A420, which is that road that takes you from Oxford to Swindon.

quite a busy road and I was driving down that's wobbling along quite happily it is quite nice when people recognize you and you're driving a car they don't expect and if it's quite a small charming car I think it probably leaves a good impression people think I thought he was a complete wanker and I think he's less of a wanker they think I'm not a wanker they think I'm less of a wanker smaller one

Yeah, I'm still a wankerette rather than a full wanker.

Yes, I think you're absolutely right, Mr C. You can have that one, although you did miss the opportunity to fit the word glory into your description of the Mercedes earlier, so that's making up for it.

I was driving down the 420 and I stopped in a lay-by

because it just dawned on me that I was in a red 205XS almost, I don't know, 30-something years before I'd done exactly that journey in a red XS.

My third ever car was a 205XS, a red one, and I used to drive it between Bristol and Oxford Poly where I was a student, if you can call it being a student.

where I spent time drinking.

And that was my wrap run.

And I suppose the muscle memory we have for roads is also particular to the car that we were driving at the time.

And the weird thing is I can't remember who I spoke to last week, but I remember approaching a section thinking, I know this bit should be in fourth, not fifth.

And it was.