Peter Stevens Car designer
‘I WAS BORN IN MACCLESFIELD BECAUSE that’s where my mother was sent while my father was in the army. He’d been one of the last people out of Dunkirk. I didn’t realise until much later that I was born at the same time and place as future racing driver and sponsorship guru Guy Edwards. There’s a photograph I have of a nurse holding two newborn babies in her arms and in one is me and in the other is Guy. One day I’d end up designing racing livery for him.
My father was a painter, a good one, but you couldn’t earn a living and support a family doing that so he ran a furniture museum in the East End. He wasn’t particularly interested in cars but my mum’s younger brother was. His name was Denis Jenkinson.
According to my grandmother my first words were ‘Look, Jeep!’ She bought me a
