Mk1 redux

That whole race car for the road thing just stuck in my mind, and never left

”S do you want a race car or a street car?” That was the first question Andy Robinson asked when Jason called him up and said he wanted to revamp his Mk1 Consul, a car he’d had since he was 16, and which has been a part of his life for the last 30 years.

The car had not changed much since we featured it in 2002, but Jason’s high-end interior architecture business has gone from strength to strength, affording him a lifestyle he could only have dreamed of when he started out on the journey with this car. When we spoke with him, he’d just returned from an Alps run with a good friend in their LaFerrari, and has a Porsche GT2 as his daily driver, but cars like that come and go (though, admittedly, he rather likes the GT2 and that has hung around for over a decade now), the old Consul came and stayed.

“When I was young, you bought wanted, having first seen John Holmyard’s car when I was about 13, and then going to the old Ravenswood School car shows and seeing cars like Ray White’s Mk1, Steve Corbett’s Mk2 and then Nick Arlett’s ’47. That whole race car for the road thing just stuck in my mind, and never left.”