Grahame ‘Whiff’ Smith will need no introduction to many Custom Car readers. He’s a long-term Surrey Street Rodders stalwart and stitcher of countless rod and custom interiors, and now he’s the leading light of generations of Smith family hot rodders. In a nutshell, that sums up Whiff, but there is far more to the man than that – as those who know him will be aware.
Over the years, Whiff has owned many cars and they all get driven, driven a lot. Take the ’32 coupe he owned for 10 years for instance; he clocked up 67,000 miles in that.
Whiff confesses that it hasn’t all been plain sailing, though. “I think I hold the dubious accolade of having broken down in nearly every country on the continent,’ he says. “But you gotta go there before you can break down there!”
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