HARRY’S GAME
THE 300TH ISSUE OF EVO. WHAT BETTER excuse to spend a morning with the bloke who started it all, incredibly almost a quarter of a century ago. So off I trek down to the Cotswolds to Harry’s Farm, just outside the postcard-pretty village of Shilton. We’re both more salt than pepper these days, both the wrong side of 60, but I have to say that Harry is looking remarkably trim. He still cycles (and trail-bikes) regularly. And he’s clearly as driven as ever, always looking for the next thing. Same old Harry really.
Barker, Meaden, Fraser and I first got to know him in the mid-1990s when we were working at Performance Car. At first he was a reader who was generous enough to lend us the odd car to use in road tests – his lovely little Elan Sprint and various then-new Maseratis at a time when Maserati press cars were hard to source. From those small beginnings, the relationship grew; by the time we shot the 1996 Performance Car of the Year, Harry was part of the test team. And when PC was closed in the spring of 1998, he saw the opening for a new, improved mag, launched evo with his own money (or rather his bank’s), and the rest, as they say, is history. But in recent years another Harry has emerged: the star of dozens of YouTube videos under the Harry’s Garage channel. It currently has around 600,000 followers and attracts some 3million views a month. Few of us saw that coming.
And here we are, inside
