FOR TRUCK’S SAKE

You love to see it. Modifiers who start young, building excellent and mould-breaking cars, and grow up into proper offbeat thinkers with hardcore skills and imagination for days. Jack Gibson is one such person. Back in 2014, readers of our sister magazine Classic Ford were treated to the sight of his Mk1 Escort estate – a car he bought at the age of 22 simply because a childhood spent going to car shows with his dad meant that shows were in his blood, and a classic with a lot of boot space would give him plenty of room for camping gear. Following his own unique path he then set about upsetting the purists and shaking up the establishment by fitting the longroof with a home-made air-ride setup and Piaggio orange side-stripes. Setting out his stall with this fledgling project, Jack’s been putting purists’ noses out of joint ever since, his personal skillset growing to astonishing proportions as he continues to plough his own furrow in the automotive scene.

Fast-forward to 2021, and we find him in the boss’s chair at Jack’s