There’s this bloke fossicking around under the bonnet of a portly Alvis grey lady; he’s dressed in a grey boiler suit and black lace-ups. He appears enthusiastic, waving his spanner at the GoPro camera proudly (but calmingly) as he announces that he’ll be racing this old girl at Silverstone once he “tightens everything up”.
Meet Mr Ivan Dutton; at a mere 80-something years, this chap has more get up and go than most blokes half his age, it would seem, and he has managed to amass a cult following on his YouTube channel Shed Racing.
Surfing the web
I was intrigued, to say the least, when I stumbled across this Englishman and his collection of car exotica whilst scrolling the Interweb on a wet afternoon here in Canterbury.
My wife, who must get bored with my constant request for her to look at some of the subject matter for my article, said “WOW!” – and consequently pointed at the laptop screen.
“There,” she exclaimed. “He has vintage flying duck ornaments fixed to the workshop walls; now that’s