Ain't no Substitute...

Dave Biles is no stranger to building superlative cars and motorcycles. Indeed, he has built many show-winning bikes, mostly of the custom variety, but the pinnacle of these various exploits was having Superbike Champion Carl Fogarty pick his custom-built bobber as Best in Show at an event at Trinity Park, Ipswich, Suffolk – it doesn’t get much better than that!

Dave is just as enthusiastic about cars too and one day he went out to purchase another Jaguar XJ6 as his current example was getting a bit long in the tooth. However, like so many best-laid plans, there was a major change to the brief: “I remember telephoning my wife from a public call box (no mobiles in those days) and said I’d bought a car,” he recalls. “What is it?” asked his wife Roberta. “I said it was a surprise and that I’d toot