A new start after 60: At 26, I saw my dream Porsche. At 68, I built one from scratch

Bill Drysdale could never afford the sports car he fell in love with as a young man. So when he retired, he went to night school to learn welding, and began assembling it, bit by bit ... When he was 26, Bill Drysdale saw a Porsche 904 at Silverstone racetrack and fell in love. “One day,” he vowed, “I will have one of those.

” As the years went by, the price of Drysdale’s dream car rose above £1m. “I realised I was never going to be able to buy one. ” But when he retired, still harbouring the dream, he thought: “Why don’t I make one? ” Drysdale grew up in Wigtown, Scotland, and cars were in his blood – his grandfather was chauffeur to the local creamery manager, and he first saw a race…