How mad is this

ratman · December 16, 2007

when surfing retro rides I came across a build of a twin engine mk Three escort and on page 7 I find this

I hope the previous owner was a grass-track racer or simular, and that painting a 3 foot Garfield on his bonnet wasn't his attempt at styling, but was merely some sort of humourous racing livery, or an 'in joke' about the racer's chosen orange colour scheme. I find it strange that the artist painted Garfield sticking up his middle finger, with "HI!" written next to him..... You may also notice that Garfield seems to have human fingernails...... Best not to think too deeply about these things.

this is my reply

I nearly sh1t a brick when I saw this picture this bonnet was on my RWD MK three escort I raced on the grass (as you suspected) back in the very early nineties the Garfield was a playful dig at a fellow racer the gold tooth and fingernail was also a dig as the guy spray painted car bits gold and sold them as race parts (although they was still standard bit painted gold :)

It was painted by my brother in law on his living room table and his wife got the right hump :sad: