THE IT CROWD
Thirty-nine-year-old Jon Carter is an IT Operations Manager that hails from Rochester in the ‘garden of England’, Kent. Whilst some tech guys follow a groundbreaking route in all aspects of their life, as you can see, we’re not here to wax lyrical about the latest Tesla. Thankfully Jon is one of us and firmly an old school guy: “It’s the simplicity of the early stuff that I really like. It definitely has a charm. As a kid, I loved the Herbie films and later in life, our wedding car was a 1968 VW beetle! For me, the series 1 Mk1 represents the start of the hot hatch era and is an icon”.
Jon has an interesting car history which is mainly Wolfsburg flavoured. His first car was another series 1 Mk1 Golf. Whilst he would have loved a GTI, the 1.3 Driver was a little more insurance friendly although he recalls that his premium was still twice that of the £700 price tag of the car: “It was at the height of the max power era. I bought a partially modified one from a
