FOURTEEN YEARS, 171 issues, countless press-night curries. Boy and man. But now I’m off, believe it or not, leaving Octane after all this time. It’s quite a strange feeling.
Octane came about from a pub conversation, of course, and within a couple of weeks four of us – Sanjay Seetanah, Geoff Love, Robert Coucher and I – had set about raising capital to start an all-new classic car magazine. That was back in November 2002, and by April 2003 we’d launched our first issue from a small office equipped with secondhand desks, a couple of unreliable Mac laptops and the invaluable help of art director Rob Gould.
It’s been a wild ride ever since, as Octane has grown in size and, I’m pleased to say, stature. We’ve driven some remarkable…
