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For many years, Roger has had an ambition to build a Riley-based Special. He located the burned out remains of a 1934 Riley, destroyed in a barn fire, and decided there was just enough left of the car to use as a basis for his project. Now, after five years hard work and several major crises, he has turned a few rusty remnants of an 85 year old car into a beautiful piece of automotive art. This book tells that story.

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Roger was born in Derbyshire in 1942, and was educated at Swanwick Hall Grammar School and then took a National Diploma in Design course (NDD) at Derby College of Art before doing a post-graduate year at London University, obtaining an Art Teacher's Diploma (ATD). He taught art for a short while before moving to London in 1965, working in an advertising agency as a junior designer. He then moved to Toronto, Canada with his wife Penny where he worked as an art director for five years before going freelance. He formed a design studio and ran that business for 17 years before selling the company and retiring due to health reasons in 1989. He and his wife returned to England and have lived in Lincolnshire ever since. He spends his time restoring sports cars and racing cars from the fifties and sixties. He was deeply involved in motorsport, and has competed in rallies and races at an international level for more than 30 years, racing in Europe, America, Canada and the UK. He retired from active competition in 2005. He has also enjoyed several architectural restoration projects. The largest, and he says the last, is the conversion and restoration of a derelict Georgian stable and coach house into a residence, in which he and his wife now live. Although he has written several articles for magazines, Phoenix is his first book.

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