LIKE A G6!
When an old-school Ford owner who’s been around the block a few times says their car is ‘quite lively’, experience tells us that’s humble-speak for ‘a complete and utter animal’. The accompanying twinkle in owner Jason Wall’s eye is a dead giveaway that he is massively underselling the potency of his beautiful Gartrac G6 Escort, so we delve further into his relationship with one of the rarest fast Fords on the planet.
“It all started with my dad, really,” begins Jason. “He rallied Anglias, Lotus Cortinas, Mk1 Escort GTs, an ex-works Escort Twin Cam, and eventually he got into a Gartrac-prepared Group 4 Mk2 Escort.” Jason’s childhood was therefore, unsurprisingly, a very fond one; the weekends of his youth were spent either helping his dad build the cars or servicing them at rallies.
As the years rolled by, his dad
