Dutton Cars

By Steve Hole

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Steve Hole details Dutton Cars and the colourful character that is Tim Dutton through a wealth of rare and previously unpublished images.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1398130982
• ISBN13: 9781398130982
• Release Date: April 2027
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages