Cars quickly became integral to every aspect of our lives. By the end of the 1950s most parents experienced the world through the windscreen and most kids watched it go by from the back seat upon which many of them were spawned. By the 1960s the baby boomers had their own cars, often mum and dad’s hand-me-downs that had been hotted up. They couldn’t drive as fast as their hero, racing car champion Jack Brabham, but they felt like they could.