YOU & YOURS
Here's a car we've featured before. Back in 2017, in fact. It's quite hard to mistake the wide-body Kremer 935 Street Turbo formerly owned by 1970s record producer, Mickie Most, what with its 7 RAK registration plate (RAK being Most's label) and deep metallic blue paint with red and gold stripes, but what's it doing here in Harpenden, surrounded by other mouth-watering Porsches and a couple of Ferraris?
This sounds like quite a showroom, doesn't it? And yes, it is a showroom of sorts, but the cars are on canvas, rather than in the metal, and the stock is entirely the work of Jon Stevenson. You see, he doesn't just own a collection of Porsches, he also paints them, which must be quite handy when you want a new one.
We're upstairs in Jon's studio, where a twenty-five-year career in corporate law is in the past and new adventures beckon. The painting pursuit, which started as a ‘have a go’ lockdown hobby, has become an extension of Jon's passion for Porsche. That's the thing about our favourite sports car brand — once you've got the bug, it becomes all-consuming. You can eat sleep, and even paint them, so it seems. We will return to Jon's studio and to the collection of Porsches on his driveway shortly.
In the meantime, let's chart his journey to this point. First car? “A Mazda MX-5 Eunos roadster,” he tells us. “Black with tan leather interior. It was a Japanese import with speakers in the headrests.” Nothing wrong with that, we say. The MX-5 can be divisive, but only to those who
