Bernie Fineman, Original Motor Mouth
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To my great friends in TV who helped my dreams come true, Leepu, Steve Mizalas and all the team on Chop Shop, and Mario, Steve Scott and the Classic Car Rescue team.
To Wally Strong and Ted Watson, the master mechanics who guided me, taught me, helped me read and write, and made a mechanic out of me, God rest your souls.
To my friends and family: thank you for everything you do for me, bless you, and Tommy my Chihuahua, thank you for showing people what a big softie I am really.
I would also like to sincerely thank my agent Andrew Wilson, of Cloud9 Management, for his understanding, professionalism, and for writing this book from my assorted bits of paper, bad English, swear words, rants, late night calls, and nagging.
My mum, God bless her, when she was 23.
Mum and Dad on my wedding day.
With my daughter Lisa Marie in 1983.
Lisa and me with baby Nadine in 1987.
I’m surrounded by women! With my girls in the lounge in the early 1990s.
Nadine and Jamie on their wedding day with Jo and Des, the best parents-in-law any man could wish for.
Leepu and me in the ‘Angel car’, a Bangladesh wedding car we created.
With wonderful bloke Jools Holland. Leepu and I made his dream car, a Jet 1.
‘Angry Frog’ car based on a converted Mitsubishi that runs on used curry oil.
The Classic Car Rescue team (left to right) Big Diago, Sat, Mario, me and director Steve Scott.
The Corvette Stingray restored by the Classic Car Rescue team.
The team with the most expensive rescue job: a Ferrari Mondial.
Do you really wanna get me annoyed?!?
Lisa and I with our best friends in the whole world, Sharon and Phil Wilson.
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