18 October 2024, Issue 1232
We are what we drive It’s blood red, it grumbles deeply, and it’s Maureen Chaytor’s near 60-year-old baby, her regular ride, she calls it her ‘equaliser’ because it’s a conversation starter, people like talking to her about it. “And that’s nice.” It’s a 1966 Ford Mustang. Sounds a nice
car, looks an even nicer car and must be the best car because it’s already bequeathed, already ‘bagsed’ by one of the daughters, even though Maureen’s in peak health. One of the family’s other cars is also accounted for when life runs its course. It’s dad Ross Chaytor’s 1953 Ford Popular. A
modest two-door family sedan which has been reincarnated as an angry 200km/hr hot rod which Ross enjoys “thrashing the daylights” out of, and the daughters like being seen in. This family-of-four is well car-ed up – seven cars, soon to be eight, and with a
ninth on order. Basically two cars for each of them. You can never have too many. Then there’s their extended family of dozens of people and dozens of cars at the Bay Rodders hot rod club in Cherokee Place. One family’s fascination for cars is on page 14-15. Photo: John Borren.
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