England to America. Door catches are required for two new racing cars about to be shipped to the CanAm.
I worked like a lunatic because my wife and children were not here yet. I was able to really put the hours in. I’d work seven days a week, sixteen hours a day, week after week after week building racing cars. We built some CanAm cars, which were cars that could only race in America in an event called the Canadian-American Challenge Cup: CanAm. They were huge sports cars with huge engines. I can still remember the day we went to the airport to ship them across the Atlantic. I was building the door catches, which was the marvelous thing about my job in those days because I had designed the door catches, built them, and fitted them to the cars. I was inside the first car fixing the handles, loaded on the back of a lorry as it drove to the airport.
When we got to the airport to weigh them for airfreight them I had to get out. They took me back to the factory and I climbed into the second car and off we went, back to the airport. It was fantastic. We designed an awful lot of the cars ourselves: the details of the cars were not drawn by the factory, it was done by the workers, the mechanics.