Dutton Cars are the best-known UK kit-car maker and have an international reputation. Tim Dutton began producing cars in 1967 having learnt his skills from his father, who specialised in restoring Bentleys and Rolls-Royces. Tim supplemented this with an apprenticeship in toolmaking after leaving school. Dutton Cars went on to create thirty-five different models, at its height employing eighty people across four sites and producing twenty-two cars a week. In 1989, after supplying in excess of 10,000 kit cars, Tim switched to making amphibious ‘floating cars’ until 2024. Now he has gone back to his roots and is preparing to launch a new kit car.Steve Hole details Dutton Cars and the colourful character that is Tim Dutton through a wealth of rare and previously unpublished images.
Steve Hole started his career on Kit Cars & Specials magazine and has been writing about specialist cars ever since. A member of the Guild of Motoring Writers and the Society of Automotive Historians Britain, he has written three automotive books and ghost-written a book for Lincoln Small, detailing his career with Abarth Cars and running the iconic Radbourne Racing. He founded TKC MAG in 2003 and also founded and runs the totalkitcar.com webzine.
Dutton Cars are the best-known UK kit-car maker and have an international reputation. Tim Dutton began producing cars in 1967 having learnt his skills from his father, who specialised in restoring Bentleys and Rolls-Royces. Tim supplemented this with an apprenticeship in toolmaking after leaving school. Dutton Cars went on to create thirty-five different models, at its height employing eighty people across four sites and producing twenty-two cars a week. In 1989, after supplying in excess of 10,000 kit cars, Tim switched to making amphibious ‘floating cars’ until 2024. Now he has gone back to his roots and is preparing to launch a new kit car.Steve Hole details Dutton Cars and the colourful character that is Tim Dutton through a wealth of rare and previously unpublished images.
Steve Hole started his career on Kit Cars & Specials magazine and has been writing about specialist cars ever since. A member of the Guild of Motoring Writers and the Society of Automotive Historians Britain, he has written three automotive books and ghost-written a book for Lincoln Small, detailing his career with Abarth Cars and running the iconic Radbourne Racing. He founded TKC MAG in 2003 and also founded and runs the totalkitcar.com webzine.
Dutton Cars are the best-known UK kit-car maker and have an international reputation. Tim Dutton began producing cars in 1967 having learnt his skills from his father, who specialised in restoring Bentleys and Rolls-Royces. Tim supplemented this with an apprenticeship in toolmaking after leaving school. Dutton Cars went on to create thirty-five different models, at its height employing eighty people across four sites and producing twenty-two cars a week. In 1989, after supplying in excess of 10,000 kit cars, Tim switched to making amphibious ‘floating cars’ until 2024. Now he has gone back to his roots and is preparing to launch a new kit car.Steve Hole details Dutton Cars and the colourful character that is Tim Dutton through a wealth of rare and previously unpublished images.
Steve Hole started his career on Kit Cars & Specials magazine and has been writing about specialist cars ever since. A member of the Guild of Motoring Writers and the Society of Automotive Historians Britain, he has written three automotive books and ghost-written a book for Lincoln Small, detailing his career with Abarth Cars and running the iconic Radbourne Racing. He founded TKC MAG in 2003 and also founded and runs the totalkitcar.com webzine.