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@Tankslider

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Pretty handy in times of war, now working hard for our fallen. Quite likes cars. Personal account. Obvs.

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James Cameron
5 years
COVID-19 Why we are right to be scared, and what we can do about it. A thread. Who the hell am I? I’m a former Army officer who runs a charity these days, and isn’t a scientist. 1/15
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James Cameron
3 years
Jim Clark was just sensational, wasn’t he?
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James Cameron
3 years
Outstanding thinking. Superb.
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James Cameron
5 years
So, look after each other, particularly those who are less able and more at risk. Look after yourselves, your own mental as well as your physical health. Follow the science. Wash your hands. 15/15
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James Cameron
4 years
Lane discipline... is important. The police might be attempting the Kessel run in lane 4.
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James Cameron
1 year
Absolute baller.
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James Cameron
5 years
This is even more important than if you have a following for reasons other than your epidemiological expertise, so, some simple advice: Shut the fuck up, you are scaring people. People like Piers might have a voice, but they’d kill us all if we listened to it. Mute them. 13/15
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James Cameron
5 years
The teams behind the Chief Scientific Advisor are extraordinary. They are genuinely the world leaders in their fields, and they are ridiculously good at their jobs. They aren’t googling the answers, or parroting a line that they just heard from a pushy presenter on TV. 7/15
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James Cameron
5 years
This. This is what I’m talking about. Not the sort of bloke you want in your trench.
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James Cameron
2 years
I have a hangover and some explaining to do.
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James Cameron
3 years
Love this photo.
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James Cameron
3 years
This is the fastest Nova I’ve ever seen. Only just got my head around how on the edge it is… then it rains 😮
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Lease4wheels.co.uk
3 years
If in doubt flat out ! 🤯
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James Cameron
5 years
Government scientists, advisors and staff also have families, elderly relatives, the immunocompromised. They aren’t automatons, they feel that weight of responsibility. Party politics simply doesn’t come into it. It just doesn’t. So don’t pander to it, or point score. 11/15
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James Cameron
3 years
If you have to explain it, it is shit Les.
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James Cameron
5 years
@DavidRitter1 @therealmattgt @Carbongate That was wrong. You’d need three a day to get close to mankind’s daily total.
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James Cameron
6 months
Fantastic to be celebrating 10 years of @WeAreInvictus Prince Harry, Sir Keith Mills and Ken Fisher reflecting on the amount of notice between concept to delivery back in 2014 😂 #IAM10 #weareinvictus
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James Cameron
5 years
That long game is what they - the experts are considering now. Pictures of smiling Chinese people removing masks are propaganda, not science. That’s designed to cause an emotional response, and not in your interests Success of early containment can only be judged in years. 9/15
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James Cameron
7 years
I've got some mental mates. None dafter than Martin.
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James Cameron
6 years
I don’t care who you think you are, the coolest car in Q Park, Park Lane is the Rover.
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James Cameron
1 year
There's a Renault engineer who needs to lose his pension over the need to remove the whole front end of the Megane to change an indicator bulb.
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James Cameron
4 years
Children from London, hiding in a trench in Kent, watching a dog fight overhead, during the battle of Britain. Via John Topham (1940).
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James Cameron
5 years
We – in the UK, right now, are doing incredibly well. We’ll protect our vulnerable best by responding promptly when the time is right, and the people who hold that responsibility deserve our trust and our support. That takes guts. I know that. Now, more than ever. 10/15
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James Cameron
3 months
Blimey! Never seen one of these before.
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James Cameron
4 years
I think I’ve discovered the coolest house ever.
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James Cameron
4 years
Each grid square is a 500m x 500m area of the Somme. The numbers in blue are the number of bodies found in that area. We don’t wear poppies to glorify war.
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James Cameron
2 years
Crikey.
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James Cameron
4 years
One of the finest pieces of television ever made.
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The King of Blackadder 👑🇬🇧
4 years
31 years ago this month, the last ep of #Blackadder Goes Forth was screened. Most of us treasure the series as 3 unmatched hours of comedy. But there was a deeper message throughout encapsulated in this moving final scene. #RemembranceSunday #LestWeForget
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James Cameron
5 years
Lastly, don’t feel bad about being scared. I’ve been scared, many times, don’t mind admitting it. Turn off and mute the noise of those who seek personal gain by instilling fear and doubt in others. Those that pander and promote the worst in us. Be Kind. 14/15
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James Cameron
5 years
If your knowledge of the subject of pandemic is such that to understand the history of Spanish Flu you need to google it, then your dissent, because you are scared, has only one place. Your inner monologue. Keep it to yourself. Be brave. Read up on the .gov advice. 12/15
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James Cameron
6 years
Holy shit
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James Cameron
29 days
Something cool is happening in Banbury
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James Cameron
11 months
Oh, hello...
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James Cameron
4 years
Not many people who I'll willingly relinquish command to, but Murray was definitely one. Climbed in to the Comd's seat, made himself at home and talked for an hour with the lads when he was definitely supposed to be somewhere else Rest in Peace Capt Walker OBE, Royal Scots Greys
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James Cameron
5 years
EXCLUSIVE: A Defence Spokesman on the military enforcement of national lockdown this weekend. #covid19UK
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James Cameron
4 years
It was at this point L/Cpl Smith remembered that he’d signed for the Land Rover personally.
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James Cameron
3 years
So… we entered Brian in the dog show for a laugh. #rescue #staffy #adoptdontshop #nailedit
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James Cameron
5 years
The restoration of this car cost a fecking fortune, more than the car’s market value but my Father in Law bought it new, in 1974. My wife and her sister learnt to drive in it. It is back with my FiL in daily use. This lot are off to Harrogate, across the tops. Perfect. #fulvia
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James Cameron
4 years
Woah. The forerunner of the FF? Looked really well resolved. A quick look at its MOT history indicates that it’s done less than 15,000 miles in its life.
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James Cameron
3 years
Cafe racer.
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James Cameron
5 years
The plans for this stuff are incredibly comprehensive, and help a government to act decisively, and at the right time. So much in response is about timing – and too soon can be more dangerous than too early. Look at the second (winter) wave of Spanish flu (graph from CDC) 8/15
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James Cameron
3 years
The Venom gate guard of the former RAF Grove sadly had its last flight today. But for a little while, it was glorious.
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James Cameron
2 years
Jeremy Vine there, exercising his rights.
@Only9built
Electric Blue🧢🖌
2 years
Morning All😘👋
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James Cameron
4 years
What a job these guys and girls did today.
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James Cameron
2 years
I’ve had a brilliant restomod idea. All the interior and mechanicals from a new Defender, into ginger indicator, no side step Disco 3s. If I can just make the numbers work, I reckon I could knock them out for £250k. ish. Who is in?
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James Cameron
4 years
We’ve come a long, long way from Zandvoort, but we still make blokes who walk into the fire. 🇬🇧
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James Cameron
4 years
My drive home today was not shit.
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James Cameron
3 years
How do I make this my header?
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James Cameron
7 months
This was not a good time to drive up this lane. I've already been sat here for five minutes
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James Cameron
4 years
Some people. Liberties.
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James Cameron
4 years
Holly has found a matching manual 928. Thinks I should buy it for her.
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James Cameron
2 years
Proud of the #OrangeArmy - the British Marshals. Straight in there.
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Jimmy Salford
2 years
Protesters at Silverstone putting stewards and drivers lives at risk with their selfish actions.
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James Cameron
4 years
Garrath has nailed exactly how I feel. I was a young officer, out on the prairie learning my trade as part of a tank crew overseas at the moment his mother died. That boy grew up into a life of service that he took seriously. I wish him, and his loved ones, nothing but the best.
@UKAUSVeteran
GPR Williams
4 years
For what it matters, I'm still firmly in his corner. He lost his mother as a boy, served his country proudly & had a huge impact on the lives of many wounded veterans & their familes around the world. He's now working at being a Dad & Husband - away from the UK. Go well Harry.
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James Cameron
5 years
By 03 I was a Major, Chief of Staff to Dep Comd of the Iraq Survey Group. The bloke showing Dr David Kelly around Baghdad days before he returned to face enquiry. I’m not a blind government fanboy. Let's say I learnt the dangers of conflating politics & science the hard way. 5/15
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James Cameron
6 years
Harrier has been out of service for some time now, but it is still more than capable of neutralising a threatening Renault.
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James Cameron
2 years
I’ve not posted from holiday much, apologies. This though. This had to be shared…
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James Cameron
4 years
@BondHack @MattGarrahan @robertmooreitv The guy on the left in the black has ‘Camp Auschwitz’ written on his shirt.
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James Cameron
5 years
Haven’t posted this anywhere before, but back in 2017 I met a nice man who had the keys to a private road to the top of the world. Fortunately, I was in an @astonmartin Vantage GT8 on ECOTY, and @stuartg917 also thought it was a good idea. @AndyatAston @Bincenzo01 @AdamTowler
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James Cameron
5 years
I was on the staff at Porton Down, working on a host of projects including planning for military aid to civil authorities, incl pandemics. So, COVID-19 Scary, isn’t it? I think so too. There’s also an abundance of information out there, and you’ve questions. I’ve an answer. 6/15
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James Cameron
3 years
And then 102 year old Mary found her way out on to track - with @harrismonkey in his GT3. Can only be @Missionmotorspt #MCDay @GoodwoodRRC
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James Cameron
4 years
Rest in peace, Sabine. Inspirational, generous, fast lady. Taught me new lines, tolerated idiots in her pool. Love to all her family and friends... and there are a lot.
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James Cameron
5 years
At last, something that I can comment on with authority. Tanks are great at many things, but have very little utility at enforcing Tesco toilet roll quota offenders. Hope that puts Vicki's mind at rest.
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James Cameron
5 years
From 2000 on I trained at Porton Down to specialise in chemical, biological & radiological warfare, deploying in support of UK interests around the world. Christmas 2000 on the Iraq border commanding manned biological detection systems, and things got really busy in 2001. 3/15
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James Cameron
5 years
I’ve an Environmental Sciences BSc sure, but not ‘an expert’ virologist, epidemiologist, or human factors guy. But - I do speak the language, and I am an expert on where the right answers lie. 2/15
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James Cameron
2 years
Ah man, that’s not helping. Morning ⁦ @harrym_vids
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James Cameron
1 year
Lane discipline is awful these days
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James Cameron
3 years
Images that define a moment in time.
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James Cameron
5 years
I started 2001 tracking the virology of F&M in the fields of Cumbria and Devon, but by end of the year I was in Kabul, dealing with some extraordinary challenges, including unsecured Russian Cobalt-60 sources, and Anthrax veterinary vaccine production facilities. 4/15
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James Cameron
8 days
Last two laps of the BSB season nearly broke the commentary team. Fantastic:
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James Cameron
5 years
“Mr Bond, we weren’t expecting you to come in that, if I’m honest”
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James Cameron
18 days
Dropped the galactic miles Freelander2 for its MOT this morning.
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James Cameron
6 years
This.
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James Cameron
5 years
Nice French car Chris, perhaps take the time to follow some British laws?
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Christopher Barker
5 years
Our work IS NOT DONE UNTIL we have British fish, from British waters, landed on British shores - and trawled and processed using British jobs. #Grimsby4B
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James Cameron
4 years
When you set the flux capacitor to 2020
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James Cameron
5 years
9 years ago Will and I were in Afghanistan together. He was blown up aged 18 in Jan 2011 - one of the guys who was an inspiration for Mission Motorsport in his recovery. He is now a firefighter, we are reunited today Autosport and I couldn’t be prouder. Emotional, for both.
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James Cameron
7 years
Right, wheels are turning. Stand by. #Fever will get structure, a trust, a way for people to support @henryhopefrost 's family and legacy. Thank you @tomwookieford and David Clark.
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James Cameron
6 years
Drove to get bread. Found some 23 miles away. Result.
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James Cameron
4 years
#shedgoals Properly happy this has all worked.
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James Cameron
4 years
This is properly cool. Very happy.
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James Cameron
3 years
Anyone fancy a drink?
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James Cameron
4 years
Sensational confidence.
@Rinoire
rinoire
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#Porsche 911 GT3
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James Cameron
18 days
The perfect solution for when you need to get to Blofeld's underground lair in the Alps by dawn, but the dog hasn't had his jabs to go into kennels so you've got to take him with you
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James Cameron
3 years
Amazing. Natural selection for drivers.
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James Cameron
4 years
Really much happier with these 60 profile rears. The taller profile just works.
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James Cameron
1 year
Today seems a bit special.
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James Cameron
2 years
I was doing alright, till I saw this.
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James Cameron
11 months
Am I allowed to have been excited to see this today? Was immaculate
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James Cameron
4 years
Why is Barry from Eastenders singing at the inauguration?
@AndyHa_
Andy Ha
4 years
Inspirational. #InaugurationDay
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James Cameron
9 years
Bloody Hell! RT @CumbriaWeather : Crazy wind at Kimber Scout - check out the waterfall!! #StormDesmond @bbcweather
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James Cameron
4 years
This was a bit of a shock. But post Covid - the country will remember the efforts of the Forces and veteran volunteers who stood up and served again when things were hard. @Missionmotorspt @React_Response @Spare_Hand @VeteransGovUK @JohnnyMercerUK
@SoldierOnAwards
Soldiering On Awards
4 years
The Patron’s Special Recognition Award winner James Cameron, CEO of @Missionmotorspt , humbly describes the work done by the #military community during the pandemic. @Tankslider #SOA2020 @JJChalmersRM @TeamRubicon
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James Cameron
5 years
Jude is away, so Tom and I have tidied up the lights at the front of the house.
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James Cameron
4 years
This has made my evening.
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James Cameron
6 years
My wife has borrowed my office to wrap presents in peace. She’s locked herself in, and apparently the lock has jammed. She’s successfully passed the key to me under the door. The comic possibilities are endless. I don’t want to rush this, so I’ve taken the dogs out to think.
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James Cameron
2 years
I’m having a moment as the sun rises on Mount Snowdon, and the Race of Remembrance ❤️
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James Cameron
6 years
Watch this
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James Cameron
5 years
I love Volvos.
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James Cameron
4 years
Lifetime ban, please.
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James Cameron
3 years
I don’t think I could love the Life of Brian any more than I do, then something like this pops up.
@scowlingmonkey
🦧Scowlin Munkeh
3 years
@markoftheD Random fact about Life of Brian (the best one). It was banned in Aberystwyth for 30 yrs, & finally lifted in 2009 by the mayor of Aberystwyth, who just happened to be Sue Jones-Davies - Judith in the film. Terry Jones and Michael Palin attended Aberystwyth’s first screening.
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James Cameron
5 years
For those in peril. Hats off.
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Coastguard Matt
5 years
Hats off to all @RNLI crews who put to sea in this weather to save the lives of others.
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James Cameron
5 years
“Hi, I’m just ringing to report a small accident on my Trackday policy. Hello? Hello?”
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Earl Karanja
5 years
GT2 RS that just crashed into a Huayra BC at Monza today😳
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James Cameron
2 years
Step this way, Madam
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