Jeff Beck

to George Lucas, but we couldn’t agree on a price. So in the end I decided to build my own.’ It’s 1985 and Jeff Beck, guitar legend, is talking to a trio of twenty-something men, including myself, at his Elizabethan home in Wadhurst, East Sussex. This usually shy and relatively reclusive man has welcomed them into his manor house (built in 1591), given them beer, and is now regaling them with tales of hot rods and Chevy V8s. A tour of the grounds follows, including a walk up the hill to his workshop and a Nissen hut containing four 1932 Fords. Closest to the door is