This car was registered in January 1968, but it had been built in December 1966. That means it was a very early example of the MkIV, but it also shows how difficult Ford found it to shift them initially! My father-inlaw Fred Piggott bought it, and the story as I have heard it – although Fred has never
I started going out with Fred's daughter Dolly (now my wife) in 1970. Back then I was driving £10 bangers – Vauxhall Victors, Austin Cambridges and stuff like that – so the Zodiac was a class act and well beyond my means. It was four years old at that point, but still in fantastic condition because Fred only used it in the summer and on weekends
Fred still had the Zodiac when he retired in the mid1970s. Then around 1980 he was putting it into his garage and caught the bumper because his drive was on a bit of a skew. We got it sorted out with a new bumper, but Fred decided that he wasn't going to drive it again and gave it to me. I had driven it a few times over the years already, the first time being on a trip from Bedfordshire up to the Orkney Islands. This had been some years previously. we could take the
