In the Beginning

Dad and I, on my wedding day, 2017 (I'm the younger one, obviously!)

So here we go, my first blog post! I’m going to be trying to put something up about once a week, musings about projects I currently have on the go and generally things I’ve seen which I think might be interesting and worth sharing. So as this is the start, how about a little bit about where this began and how I ended up sat with my laptop on my knee writing this.

I’ve always been interested in cars and have been brought up around them, my Dad is a engineer by profession so growing up around tools, making and fixing stuff is just second nature.  I made a V8 table for myself years ago when I was still at Uni (feels like a life time ago now!) and then it just snowballed from there; now I build tables from all sorts of salvaged parts as well as seats from beautiful interiors.



​I find it really satisfying creating something new out of objects which would otherwise be scrapped. Most of the engines I break for parts are non-runners and the interiors I use are all from scrapped cars. Believe it or not the Bentley and Rolls Royce interiors I upcycle are the least wanted part of the dismantled cars, if it were not for me getting my hands on them they would be binned, what a waste!
Speaking of a lovely interior, and to end on the present, this seat is a splendid example of a Bentley interior saved from the scrap. It’s a passenger front seat from a 1980’s Bentley Turbo R…recently re-purposed into a super comfy chair and now taking pride of place in the showroom at Car Trader Ltd in Lincoln, more photos to follow….

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