SUPER TROUPER

Classic Fords restored: Everyone said this Fiesta Supersport was too rotten to save – but Nathan De’Ath wouldn’t take no for an answer.

Daniel Bevis

You never forget your first time, do you? For so many of us, the first car we owned is the one that’s clung to most tightly in our affections, the one we increasingly yearn for in later life as the desire grows to relive those halcyon days of youth. For Nathan De’Ath, it was a Fiesta Supersport that made those magical memories in his formative years — and appropriately enough, this particular model was something of a first-time love for Ford itself, too. Back in 1979, the product planners at Ford of Europe were starting to think about the potential and the commercial viability of creating a sporting variant of the Mk1 Fiesta. They first dipped a toe in the water by soft-launching a pair of S models, available with…

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Classic Ford (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2024

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