1968 Ford Country Squire LTD
It’s close to 20 years since Martin Skipper bought his first American car and it would be fair to say he’s developed quite an addiction since. A recent addition to his impressive and growing collection is this immaculate and very rare ’68 Ford Country Squire LTD. Martin Skipper will be a familiar name to regular readers as his classics from over the pond have appeared in no fewer than five previous features in Classic American. Despite passing his driving test back in 1964, it wasn’t until much later when Martin began his buying spree of old American cars. “I’d bought a 1936 Austin Seven Ruby for my first car from a scrapyard for £10,” he recalls, “I went on to own countless other British cars, including a few classics by Ford, Vauxhall and Rover, but I’d always had an interest in American cars too.”
The person probably most responsible for introducing Martin to the American car scene was magazine,” Martin recalls, “compared to what we had in the UK at the time, their cars were on another level.” After dipping his toes in the UK show scene with a Mk1 Cortina estate, Mk3 Zodiac, Mk1 Zephyr, and a brace of Rover P4s and P6s, in 2004 Martin bit the bullet and bought himself his first American car, a 1955 Buick Special.
