My working arrangement with Ford had become difficult by the end of 1968. I could not work with the new competition manager, John Gowland, and then with Al Turner arriving from America it was obvious they had their own ideas of how it should run.
Things were changing at Ford. There was a new breed coming into Ford then; they had university degrees and they spoke beautifully but they didn’t know anything.
At the same time there was a bloke named Peter Lewis-Williams at Holden. He was in their public relations department and he was a motorsport person. I knew him pretty well and I said to him, “these Ford people better get their act smartened up or I’m gonna piss off, I’ve had enough”. “Oh,” he says, “I’ve been talking to the boss and they’re sort of interested in doing something about that – would you be interested?”
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