DESIGNERS WORLDWIDE STILL LOVE 'EM; Ian Callum's Deuce rumbles in the U.K.(News)

Byline: MIKE DUFF

The number of car designers who have owned, or do own, a hot rod based on a '32 Ford is incalculable, but one of the more unlikely would seem to be Scottish-born Ian Callum, design director for Jaguar.

"I fell in love with hot rods at the same time I fell in love with Jags,'' Callum admits. "My brother Moray [now an equally senior designer at Ford] brought me a load of magazines from the States, and I was just knocked out by how great these things looked.''

Not that rural Scotland is exactly the place to indulge such fantasies. And until very recently, Callum's enthusiasm for overengined vintage Americana remained a well-kept secret-right up to the point when he bought a spectacularly modded '32 Ford B, in fact.

"I mentioned the fact I've always liked hot rods to a friend, and he introduced me to a guy called Jon Golding, who builds some amazing cars right here in the U.K. He's from Essex and sounds like he's a gangster in a Guy Ritchie ...