DREAM GARAGE
One man’s awesome collection of fine fast Fords.
The idea of the dream garage is something that a lot of us have idly chalked up somewhere at the back of our minds. Real life can often get in the way of building up a collection of the motors we’ve forever dreamed of owning, but there’s always the chance that one lucky Friday night your numbers might come up on the EuroMillions, and you’ll then be ideally placed to scoop up those iconic treats and generally win at life.
It doesn’t have to take a lottery win, of course. You don’t have to buy all the cars at once. Playing the long game is the key to success, like Adam Smith has done here; by channelling funds into the realisation of his lifelong automotive dreams over a number of years, he now finds himself with a stellar collection of fast Fords, with a clinically white personal showroom to house them all in.
The stuff of dreams? Sure, and Adam’s living it. Regular readers will have seen his extraordinarily high-spec Escort RS Cosworth, which recently graced the cover of the June issue (if you didn’t, grab a back issue from shop.kelsey.co.uk for the full feature on an incredible car). But with the quality and
diversity of the rest of the collection, we just had to bring you a taster of the other Blue Ovals in the Smith household.
The reason for Fords being in Adam’s blood? Well, as is so often the way, it’s familial ties that forged the lifelong passion and yearning.
He explains, “My dad always had Fords. I got my first one when I was 18 – a Series Two RS Turbo. A whole lot of happy memories of that car.”
Now 33, Adam’s got his name inked on the V5s of all the cars he could have dreamed of when he was a teenager. The collection really began in earnest back in 2014, when he bought the Escort Cosworth, which had always been his childhood dream machine. And it seems that the giddy thrill of ticking a life box was too addictive to resist. From then on, life became geared towards building up the collection you see before you, and it hardly needs pointing out that this guy is something of a perfectionist.
It’s not enough to own examples of the right cars on the wish list, but each has to be in outstanding condition and ready for regular (and enthusiastic) use.