Great Garages
Each car represents his lifelong passion for rare vehicles – – from his early life in a small English village, to Canada and Connecticut and eventually Arizona. That’s why he just built a 1,600-square-foot high-ceilinged garage attached to his north Scottsdale home.
Before the completion of his auto cave, he stored his joys at various friends’ homes as well as at APEX Motor Club in Maricopa. Now at home, he, his wife Julie and their rescued black Labrador retriever, Natasha, can all enjoy them in their different ways. “Julie said no more cars, as we don’t have any more room, so building out the garage seemed the obvious solution to me,” he explains.
“I don’t collect them, I’m not very good at selling them, I just love them,’” says Kimpton, who was born and raised in Albrighton, a village in Shropshire, England, not far from Birmingham. “I love unique cars; none are worth very much in world-market terms, but they all mean a lot to me.”
After graduating from Oxford University with an engineering degree, he built a component car in three months before beginning a career. “I think I got the car bug from
