John Benton is a coiled spring of a man. His Californian workshop may be tucked away in Anaheim, southeast of downtown LA, but that doesn’t mean Benton Performance is a quiet little corner in which to show hushed reverence to shiny old Porsches. There’s enough of that going on elsewhere in California. John’s eyes are wide and his energy fizzing as he leads me and photographer Jonny on a tour much longer than his modestly sized shop had led us to expect, Motown pumping loudly throughout the building as we try our best to keep up with both his legs and his anecdotes.
It’d be a bit strong to call Benton the anti-Singer, not least because they aren’t directly comparative. You’re looking at a resto business here rather than a resto business. But there’s an everyman spirit
