CAREER

• Began in 1984 in the automotive industry as a gopher, moving into magazine publishing in 1985 as a fetcher of tea and general lackey.
  
• By 1991, was editor of Classic & Sports Car, the world’s best-selling classic car magazine. Founded Your Classic magazine too, and also had a stint on Autocar.
• Since 1994, he’s worked as a writer and consultant across all manner of media, and today contributes to famous national newspapers (The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Sunday Times), top-notch magazines (Condé Nast Traveller, Management Today), and copious motoring publications (Auto Express, Octane).
• Has very wide experience of on-line, merchandising and client publishing. Seems to have an uncanny way with pitch, tone and angle.
• Has lectured on car design at the Royal College of Art, and appears frequently on BBC TV and radio; the audience can’t get enough, apparently.
• Wordsmith for marketing companies and ‘manuscript doctor’ for stricken publishers. Highly expensive, but worth it.
• Has written or co-written 15 books – My Dad Had One Of Those, written with Top Gear script editor Richard Porter, was a non-fiction best-seller in 2007. Two more will be published in spring 2009: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Automobiles and My Dad's Cortina. They are, obviously, brilliant!
• Owns a unique car image library, bursting with pictorial gems, that’s extremely well organised. Picture research assignments are frequent. and mostly produce surprising and/or delightful results.
  
• Awards: Jet Media Excellence (twice) in 1990s, Jeep Consumer Journalist Of The Year 2005, BCA Feature Writer Of The Year 2008, winner of the 2008 Montagu of Beaulieu Trophy for Chapman's Car Compendium book. Certificates are NOT displayed on the office wall.