IT belongs to, and was built by, Toby, who was just 23 when he started the build (he’s only 24 now), and the basis for it was his late father’s ’79 Bonnie. It’d been a semi-stock bike that, in the years he had it, had been through a variety of styles, but was always painted red, and called ‘Christine’ after the John Carpenter film (yes, Toby knows it was actually a book written by Stephen King but, as he says, his da didn’t do books). He had dozens of bikes over the years, buying and selling ‘em, but he always kept the Bonnie although, as time went by, he sold various bits off it as mates needed parts, and the bike, by the time he passed was just, really, an engine,…
