Rob Young Founder, DMS Automotive
‘I WAS ALWAYS INTO CARS. MY DAD LOVED driving, and we’d go on our holidays to Spain. We had an apartment in Majorca, and Dad used to drive there, so I’d sit in the back and be car spotting. From six years old it was all about the 911 Turbo with the big whale tail [the 930] – that’s what I wanted from being about knee-high. Not a Ferrari.
When I was about 14 my dad taught me how to drive, in Spain. My first car was a 957cc Ford Fiesta, with 39bhp. I was sure it had lost some of that power, so I bought a Haynes manual and took the cylinder head off, jet washed it all out, ground the valves back in with paste, and put it all back together in the back garden, hoping I’d get back the power. I was power hungry even then…
Microelectronics is my trade, but I was
