Awesome, I just love that stuff. 
And on a related note, I once got to make a bit of noise on Eddie Jordans's "office" drum kit on a trip round the Jordan base opposite Silverstone. 
That was during a corporate day out at the circuit during off-season testing. I got to lean on the Armco on the INSIDE at Becketts while Rubens and a couple of others were belting round, just feet from the cars! My ears still haven't recovered.
Everyone else on the "awayday" was just arsing around on a skid pan in a Lotus 7 with silly tyres on; I had something much better to do and skipped that.
Then my day was made perfect. A Silverstone car (some little runabout) drove up and stopped right near me. The driver got out and wandered over to watch the action from the spot I'd chosen (there'd been a BRDC meeting earlier as I soon discovered) and started chatting to me. It was one of my all-time heros, John Watson!
He stayed to watch, told me loads I would never have noticed, and stayed about half an hour! I was in HEAVEN. 
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions and extended leather. Ski hatch retrofit. Aftermarket reversing camera. DVB-T and XCarlink now removed as redundant.
2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (Even rarer than a D2 S8!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one! 
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. Agate Grey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, Tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon. Added Auto-dim mirror, Leather seats, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
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