TOPLESS REMODEL

We sometimes feature some fairly outrageous cars in this magazine. You might have noticed. There’s a lot of enormously skilled people out there whose proclivities verge on just the wrong side of utter lunacy, and that’s a very good thing indeed for the retro car scene. But, of course, we don’t all ride unicorns to work and feast on ethereal mead and moonbeams – most of us, whether we like it or not, have to live in the real world. And the real world sucks. It’s full of tax bills, low-battery warnings, speed humps, and germs. So we just have to make the best of it, don’t we?

But before you pour yourself a double and start shaking your fist at the sky at the futility of it all, let’s throw a positive spin on that. OK, you may not have Elon Musk’s reserves of cash to fuel your automotive fantasies, but you do have passion