“Trust me, I know what I'm doing.”
Paul and Matt Buck seem to have the kind of father-son relationship that many of us would regard as ideal. Who better to have as your chief ally in a life of mucking about with old cars than your own offspring, or indeed your dad? They have a few classics between them and share the ownership of two: a 1966 Mercedes SL ‘Pagoda’ and this fabulous 1955 Ford Thunderbird. We’ll let Matt explain how the T-bird entered their lives.
“I first saw it when I was driving to work back in 2013,” he says. “It was on display in the front of a garage owned by a private individual who kept a team there to prepare classic racing cars. I first sat in it a little while later when I called in and asked the owner whether it was for sale. He said he’d never be selling it.” That position eventually softened when
