IN LOVING MEMORY
James Hunt was not a typical teenager. “When I was about 13 or 14 I bought an S-reg Mini and that started me off restoring them from there.” Even at that early age he took on two rebuild projects: one for himself and one for a friend.
He recalls that he was welding by the age of 14. “I’m self-taught. I got a welder. I got a grinder and went from there. I just worked it out, although it probably wouldn’t have been very good welding if I was able to look back,” he laughs. “My mum and dad had a little single garage at the bottom of the garden and I’d spend all the summer holidays in there just playing with cars and painting them.”
He says that although Minis hooked him in first, he does love all cars. “I was driving Ford RSs by the time I was 18. I had an Escort Cosworth by the time I was
