I’VE ALWAYS BEEN into cars and ’bikes, buying older cars and working on them. In 1992 I applied to join Colchester Institute’s Vehicle Restoration course, learning how to weld, make panels, paint and do electrics. I was in my early twenties, immersed among kindred spirits and it was a really good grounding.
I grew up on the Isle of Wight and returned there from Colchester, joining the Frogeye Car Company, building ‘new’ Sprites with K-series engines. I’d become a skilled welder and sought to diversify, so I