IAIN AYRE PERSONAL AIRSHIPS

Ionce met a man called Reg who used to stand on his head. He was one of the intriguing eccentrics who inhabited the sometimes wildly creative British kit car business before the dead hand of the clerks crippled it with incompetent and unnecessary testing. All cars should pass an annual MoT, but that’s all we need.

The people who inhabited that endlessly entertaining little world saw production cars as merely a source of useful bits, and insisted on making their own cars instead. The ones who insisted on designing as well as making their own cars