Mark and Dudley Palmer are the perfect family team, working together on an env while the other brings the Words: Mike Pye
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riting two-car features is always a bit of a tricky business, as you want to avoid giving one of them preferential treatment over the other. But it’s doubly hard in this case as the cars are owned and worked on by a father and son, and the last thing I want to do is cause a family rift! So, here’s the deal: Mark Palmer owns the ’35 Ford Panel Delivery. He’s dad. Dudley, his youngest son, owns the ’40 Ford sedan. They have numerous other cars
between them and work on them together, their different skill sets combining into the finished vehicles. But here’s the fun part. An electrician by trade, Mark is essentially a restorer. Dudley, though, he’s a fully paid-up member of the Vintage Hot Rod Association (VHRA), so he brings the hot rod to the party. As you can imagine, that meeting of minds doesn’t always, well, meet, but the end results of their labours are thoroughly useable cars that are built to be driven, occasionally raced and definitely cherished.
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