I meant does he do Car work in his super-duper garage, like what we do? Or is it just a very posh garage to house very posh cars?
Once knew a boat designer and builder. he had a house like a Swiss chalet in Sandbanks, multimillionaires row on a peninsula across the mouth of Poole Harbour.
He also had a barn built in the same style in which he kept his caravan, his cars including the kit car he built, which is how I met him, and boats. Was I jealous!
He designed and built smallish but hugely high spec boats, which was all very well except to make money on them was difficult, as they cost nearly as much as a much bigger boat. But they were gorgeous, you'd a liked him.
John Rock
see
http://www.mcintyreadventure.com/voyage-of-imagination_n/the-boat/
the boats went on as Tradewind I think, But the article states the ridiculous price for a 35 footer. $500,000!
He might even still be alive, dunno, lost touch, I knew him round about 1989/90