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Howard Donald is famous for being in Take That, but thereâs nothing âboy bandâ about his very grown-up car collection.
The Lancastrian singer, who turns 53 today, started with an Anglo-French pocket rocket. Now, as an elder statesman of pop, heâs revealed a very deep love for large Mercedes
bahnstormers and featherweight racing Porsches, in which heâs competed at events such as the Goodwood Membersâ Meeting.
When Howard joined Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Robbie Williams to audition for a new, Manchester, all-male vocal group in 1990, he had to take time off from his job of painting cars. Since then, his authority for all things automotive has grown âHigher Than Higherâ. Itâs culminated in a race licence, prizes and presenting a Channel 4 car show with Dario Franchitti called