Eccy Thump! Is that Stirling Moss' paddock Bike?
A nuts and bolts history
Paul (Eccy) Eccleshare is an ordinary bloke who’s crafted some extraordinary machines. His family has long been involved in customising, engine building and general fettling and creating. Paul’s affair with tinkering started when he was just about six months old on holiday in Blackpool in 1968. His dad wanted to undo the bolts on the window of the caravan they were in, so whilst Paul’s dad had turned his back for a moment, Paul had undone them all and thrown the nuts out of the window. The natural progression was Meccano, and helping his dad with his stock car and drag-racing a Mk 1 Cortina. Through that (and model kits), eventually he got into custom paint work.
Scarborough was the scene of Paul’s epiphany. On the main street he saw a lad crouched behind the headstock of a Lambretta with extended forks. The noise was ricocheting from the walls. Paul stood there and watched this cutdown fly up the street, and that was it. He was sold. In his own words:
