Terry Ravenscroft
ASIN: B007FZ5OCW
Publisher: Razzamatazz Publications
Pages: 249
Zephyr Zodiac is the story of a Mark 3 Ford Zephyr Zodiac, the iconic car introduced in Britain to great acclaim in 1962. The narrative begins at the time the two-tone, white-walled tyred, leopard-skin upholstered car rolls off the production line in May of that year and ends when it meets its timely demise in a car crusher in 2012, during which time it chronicles how it affects the lives of seven of the people who own it during that period. The seven tales of its fifty eventful years earth include: the time it spends its days as a chauffeur-driven company limousine (and as a love nest by the chauffeur); the spell it is the family car of a loving, childless couple (and the new home of a couple of homeless children); the occasion it serves as a funeral car (and a temporary safe); the four years it is a taxi (and a means of transport for getting rid of a troublesome wife and her even more ...