Debutante Baller
Think back to your first car. Perhaps – if you’re anything like us – it was a rusty old hatchback, picked up for a few hundred quid and thrashed to death before heading to the scrapyard a few months later. Or maybe it was something new on finance, a frugal runabout with a food-blender under the bonnet and a black box inside. Either way, the two key facts about most people’s first cars are that they’re a bit crap, and they don’t stick around for long.
Jez Bonner is a little different from the norm. This Escort here was his first car, and it’s stuck with him through thick and thin; he bought it when he was seventeen, back in 1995, for the princely sum of £3,000. Quite a lot for
