Two brothers I hung with in Guilford in the early 70's were surfers, both apprentice mechanics, the Escort van was for surfing, but they had a 2 door 1300 escort sedan, the father was a stern ex army taskmaster, you would see Baz one of the brothers, am sure he had ADHD with a constant black eye?
But they could go surfing once every fortnight and at home other times, they had a fully fitted out double garage, the old man told em they could spend all the time they liked in there working on their cars.
Baz built a monster 1600 Cortina GT engine and whacked it in the 1300 Escort, it was the fastest car I had ever been in, I only went in it once, the mongrel wouldn't stop, melted the front pads off the disc brakes, and the back tyres ended up square from the handbrake, we stopped about a metre from the gutter at Yennora Railway station, big run down Orchardleigh St, just smoke everywhere, burning rubber and brake pads, too cool, good little engine the 1600..
