Classic American

1990 Corvette ZR1 ZCAR

Conrad Webb’s family have always run American cars. Indeed, his father owned a 1964½ Mustang convertible that he purchased in California, drove it across America to New York, had it converted to right-hand drive and then shipped to the UK. “That was when my mother was pregnant with me, so I am a confirmed American car aficionado from birth, it’s all but in my blood,” he grins. “I remember we had a couple of Mach 1 Mustangs and then a Ford Torino Gran Sport. It was bright yellow and we used to thunder down to the South of France in this car, which only returned something like 12mpg. We’d pull into petrol stations at regular intervals and watch all the caravans that we’d overtaken at huge speed go by and then we went and did

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