ONE DAY YOU’LL WAKE UP, HAVE A SHOWER, lather your face and then look in the mirror with razor in hand. And it will hit you – why is someone who looks like your father staring back at you? Face facts. None of us are getting any younger, but there are ways to fight the ageing process. Some men with a mid-life crisis become born-again bikers or buy the sports car they could never afford when they were a teenager. Others do a Berlusconi – have a hair transplant and find a mistress. But Bob Varner has stayed young by restoring and riding a 1948 Whizzer, just like the one he owned before he was old enough to scrape the bumfluff from his face.
Through 1940s and 1950s America, teenage boys like Bob rode a Whizzer to deliver morning papers and earn a little pocket money. They became amateur mechanics the day they bought the engine kit and mounted
