YOUR BRAIN works hard to make sense of it, even if there is little sense to be found. So it’s a trike with a V8 sited behind the driver, and one that will be road-registered but will also be used for speed record attempts. Of course. Naturally. Next to it is a GT40 clone, still in the throes of creation. The Le Mans-conquering Ford has been a constant thread through our genial host’s life for decades, as have hot rods. And with that, his Model A pick-up burbles into view, this ‘Covid project’ having been built during the various lockdowns at the start of the decade as a means of alleviating boredom.
Somehow, a bungalow in rural Dorset and its environs scream ‘retirement dwelling’ rather than a hotbed of car-building, but Ray Christropher doesn’t see it that way. ‘What else am I going to do?’ he counters. ‘I’ve been making cars since I was a teenager. Apart from my own stuff, there have been builds for other people. The trike is one. That started with a conversation in the pub down the road. Actually, thinking about it,
