LOW 77: MG TOJEIRO
John Tojeiro was born in 1923 in Estoril, Portugal, the son of a Portuguese father and an English mother. Upon the death of his father, some 18 months later, the family moved to England. After spending his school days at a variety of locations, John joined Shelvoke and Drury, a commercial refuse lorry company, as an apprentice. In 1942 he left to join the Fleet Air Arm as a fitter, where he showed special interest in air frame stress technology. It was with this technical background that he would soon be caught up with the post-war clamour for sports cars.
Following WW2, ‘Toj’ returned to Shelvoke and Drury but left soon after to set up a small workshop behind the garage of Vin Davison, in the small South Cambridgeshire village of Arrington. Significantly, a visit to a local race meeting signalled Toj’s interest in motor sport and he set about building a simple sports racing car based on a burnt-out MG TD. Not for nothing at this time did Enzo
