No.126

Never the most exciting of chaps, Dan had a definite surge in popularity after he tore up the L-plates and was given free rein of the old family car. With his freshly polished Ford Sierra, Casbia leisure moccasins and Engineered Garments jacket, suddenly everyone was Dan’s best mate. “Dan, how’s it going? Fancy a trip out to Maccies?” or “Dan, are you awake? I know it’s five in the morning and you’re in bed, but fancy driving us back from the disused aircraft hangar?” they’d say. Not one to deny his ‘mates’ a lift home, Dan seems to have got himself into a bad crowd. In fact, last time we saw him, some daft cockney was trying to persuade him to drive a Mini Cooper full of gold out of Turin. But if that’s what friends are for…