Article Written by Ian Kilbride. Over recent years, I have taken to car restoration as a hobby. For me, this is just one element of being a petrol head, along with doing the occasional day of track racing. But as time goes by, I realise that car restoration actually says more about my personal values, my passions, my history and my aspirations for the future. I don’t express myself through classic cars, but they do speak to me. I feel a sense of pride in their restoration and somehow believe that I am doing them justice and helping them become ‘modern classics’. I am also driven by a desire to preserve what I have built up for future generations. All the cars I have restored reflect a particular period in my life, from memories of squeezing into the back of a family car, to viewing hand-made British classics close-up, (but never owning them), to being literally blown away by some of the incredible German automotive engineering and design that I managed to acquire in my earlier days as a stock-broker and businessman. While acknowledging the modern marvels of contemporary automotive engineering, there is something visceral, connected and aesthetically pleasing about […]
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