INHERITED STEALTH

So many petrolheads remember the family cars that shaped childhoods. We rote-learned the numberplates, soaped up the bodywork on a Sunday and dreamed of the day we’d have wheels of our own… Jeff Smith is just the same: he was entranced from the very first time his Dad drove home in a 1973 Mk3 Cortina L. “I just loved it,” he remembers. “Dad used to spend hours polishing it, then I went on a mechanics’ course as a teenager and learnt how to pull out, rebuild and reinstall its Pinto engine.” Four decades later, he’s still