PAUL COWLAND

Special steering wheels play a starring role in this TV host's varied collection

- CHARLIE CALDERWOOD

It's the cheapest mod you can do that makes the car feel materially different,” says presenter Paul Cowland as he pulls steering wheel after steering wheel from a metal cupboard. He has more than 50 cars in his collection, but, including those already in the cars he owns, his steering-wheel assortment numbers at least twice that.

Growing up reading car magazines stuffed with adverts for parts and accessories, and later working in PR for the same firms, Paul is as much an enthusiast for the aftermarket scene as for classic cars: laminated catalogues and advertisements sit in binders in his office.