Classics Monthly

IAIN AYRE SENIOR MOMENTS

It’s difficult to think of myself as a senior figure in the car magazine world, because I still deliberately charge through big puddles, and it’s not that long ago that I was driven at 150mph down Interstate Highway Five in empty Oregon State at 4am in a caged 1000bhp Toyota Supra on the way to a grudge-match shootout at a dragstrip in Sacramento, California. Senior I am, though. In 1996 I was the frisky young editor of Ford Heritage and then the launch editor of Classic Ford magazine,

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