PEER PRESSURE

Your projects: When Matt Berry stumbled across a Mk4 Escort shell complete with a Genesis rear-drive conversion, his mates knew it would make the perfect project car and wouldn’t take no for an answer…

Dan Sherwood

Whether it’s having a crafty ciggy round the back of the bike sheds when you were a school kid, or being goaded into an engine-destroying burnout at a car meet as an adult who should know better, peer pressure can lead you into some pretty sticky situations. But even when we know our actions are potentially leading us down the path to disaster, it only takes a little friendly prodding from our mates to throw caution to the wind and go ahead and do it anyway. For 40-year-old Matt Berry, his moment of weakness came when he let his friends and fellow members of’Avin The Crack — brothers Jack and Josh Payton — convince him to purchase a Mk4 Escort off eBay. Of course, if you haven’t heard of the bonkers…

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