Motor Sport Magazine

John Watson

When I was young, our family car was…

A Packard. My father was a motor trader so we had lots of different cars. He’d buy the cars in Glasgow and bring them back to sell in Belfast. I remember the Packards best in the 1950s. Big, lazy, straight eight engines. They were magnificent cars. I always liked them.

The first car I owned was…

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