LONDON CALLING

Yes, this is the genuine Consul GT from The Sweeney. Not a tribute or replica. The owner is Mr S, who prefers to keep his identity private, so we meet in a secret location where he confesses everything.

“When I was 19 I swapped a three-year-old Mk1 Cavalier for a Consul GT that I rebuilt and took to an early AGM for the MK1 Granada Owners’ Club,” remembers Mr S. “The Sweeney Consul turned up and attracted a lot of attention. The chap had only owned it a month and we got chatting, I showed him my GT and he took my number in case he wanted more info or parts for the car — which was fairly rare even then. Around three months later he phoned explaining he was buying a Lamborghini