Classics Monthly

SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE

Kerry: I've always been into cars. My dad was one of those people who was constantly changing his vehicles, so unlike Gar y my background was not purely in Fords – we had Triumph Dolomites, Nissan Bluebirds, Toyotas, Skodas – you name a car and my dad probably had at least one of them at some time or other. But when I passed my test in 1999, the car I wanted was a Ford Fiesta. And it had to be an XR2, it couldn't be just any old model.

We've been together for 27 years, and I think one of the reasons we get on so well is that we are both petrolheads. However, I am a Ford man through and through and I won't have any thing else in the garage. I've had all the spor ting Fords, and at the moment I have an RS Mexico in the garage that is half way through a restoration, an XR3i which we've given to our eldest son and a Ford Puma for our youngest son. Out of all the spor ting Escorts, my dream car (other than an RS1800 which would

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