When I was eight I used to go round to my “girlfriend’s” house in Northamptonshire, not to see her, but to stare at her Dad’s light metallic blue Dino in his garage. I guess that’s where it all started for me...
When I was 16 my boss in northants had a dino , a red one , he owned a body shop, bought it as a write off , ordered a new front end for it , when it came it was just flat panels, because they were hand made they had to be shaped to fit, nobody would do it so he had to get a specialist in
When it was finished one day he wanted me to help him lay some flags at his house , we walked towards the dino , I though wow , then he locked it up and got in an old land rover , on the 5 miles to his house he went up the kerb twice so I'd probably be dead if we'd gone in the dino
This was 1977 , I think he sold it for £5000