Starting off with traditional carbs, NMS now embrace the whole spectrum of fuelling systems, and Troy’s loving it.
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How did you get into cars?
Like most young kids, I was into my bikes, then radio control stuff, but really anything mechanical. I just couldn’t wait to get a car when I was 17 and I’m afraid it was Rootes Group-based — mostly Hillman Imps and Avengers. Naturally, like all Imps, it had a cracked head but was also a rally-spec engine, too — if you weren’t tinkering with it because you wanted to, you were tinkering with it because you had to!
Your first Ford?
I needed a tow car to move my rally cars around so I bought a 2.8 Granada. Within a month the tappets were rattling, so I lifted the rocker covers only to be faced with a black-mass of death. I did what I could with the car but it was basically totally knackered and went to the breaker’s a week later. I haven’t owned that many Fords, but when we opened Northampton Motorsport (NMS), we did buy an Escort Harrier as a promotional car and stuck a rorty Crossflow in it — I wish we still had it because it would be worth a lot of money now!
Have you got an engineering background?
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