The story so far

I am a computer technician by trade and, like a huge number of people in my trade, a complete petrolhead.

Anyway, again like a lot of people in this industry I just sort of fell into it by accident.

After studying heavy plant and vehicle engineering at college after leaving school, and shortly after that learning to drive, I have always wanted to have something unusual, some would say mad.

Reading custom car and classics magasines was always fun but I just didn't have the money at the time.

The idea that the pembleton was a possibility came when reading an issue of one of the kitcar magasines. The machine appealed to my eccentric side, was easy to work on, not particularly complicated to build and most of all, could be built quite cheaply.


I went to the Stoneleigh show to have a look around and bumped into Rob A with his and had a really good nose around. Yes, I really like this one.


A few years later I went to Stoneleigh again and man known as Chris D, who was at the time, oddly enough driving a race-spec 2cv (that is not a contradiction in terms) known simply as "the bomb". Chris let slip that he had a Long wheel base SS sitting in his shed that he wanted to sell.

Roll on another 6 months, several events where I could see some pembletons later, including wathing them blast up the hill at Prescottm, this machine appears on the forum on www.pembleton.co.uk

I live a long way from where the car is but was going to a wedding in that general direction so I took a detour on the way home.

Anyway, now after a wodge of cash and some fun with transport companies, it is comfortably ensconced in the garage of a friend who needed some money.