A LONG RECORD IN THE ART OF RESTORATION

UK club racing is home to a plethora of unique and wonderful machines, each with its own stories that have in some way played a part in the history of motorsport – no matter how big or small.

Many will have spent decades hidden from view though, left to rust in garages or undergone crude modifications making them almost unrecognisable from how they raced in period. And many would have fallen further into disrepair were it not for the hard work of restorers, who spend hundreds of hours fettling these machines, meaning they can return to track action with most in original specification.

Geraint Owen is no exception, and it’s little surprise that the 53-year-old Welshman has become a historic restoration stalwart, having followed in the footsteps of his father, Owen Wyn Owen – a renowned restorer of cars in his own right. Not to mention having