I met Peter Jackson last year at a Bawtry Met. reunion: we were together for years at Finningley. I think he drove a sports car "with room in the back for a lawnmower". Name escapes me but I believe it had a fibreglass body. He was one a very few forecasters who attended the RN Lieutenants' Course at Greenwich. I remember because his absence caused me a fair number of extra duties.
The McQueen folklore includes being sent back Home from Ascension [as a S/Ldr RAFR Met] when the Falklands were kicking off by the notorious Captain McQueen RN "we don't need you lot".
But they certainly did.