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I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines].

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Jeremy Clarkson
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 11
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Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson
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