At the Pack Horse Inn, Affetside, Alan Hunter showed his two friends Ian Foster and Tony Rogers a brochure of a Volkswagen, rear engined fibreglass replica of a Bugatti Type 35 he had picked up on a business trip to America.

Ian Foster, once a chassis designer for Daimler, demonstrated on the back of a cigarette packet, how a strong chassis could be produced using the American body moulds to end up with a front engined version.

In short the Worsley Bugatti was born.

However, Ian remembered from his days at Daimler, Worsley was the nickname for a Friday car - a duff one - so a search was made for a new name.

In the end Trafford Engineering Automotive Limited (TEAL) was decided upon.

In 1986, Bob Jones purchased TEAL Cars from Ian Foster.

Bob developed (with chassis builder Peter Farrell) the early T35 to accept a more authentic aluminium coachwork.

On the 5th October 1986 the first all aluminium Teal was born.

Public reaction was highly positive with the company selling 16 cars ...