RED LETTER DAY
Ask an experienced concours competitor how to find consistent success with a car and you might expect any number of tips about cleaning products, carnauba wax, presentation or attention to detail. But what they actually say is this: make sure the car is done properly to start with, and then you don’t have much to worry about. Just keep it up to standard. That’s fine in theory, but finding either a perfect original survivor or (more usually) an expert restoration is easier said than done. That’s why many of the people who show cars at major events have overseen the restoration themselves, or even performed their own work. Very few of them have gone looking for a nice car in which to take the kids out on sunny days and come back with a potential show-winner.
But that’s exactly what’s happened to Laura Meeks. Her husband, Ross, bought a 1967 A-code Mustang fastback to restore four years ago, which inspired Laura’s interest in
