His tuned Alpine A110s have blown us away; here David Pook talks about his career highs at Jaguar Land Rover and his personal favourites among the cars that he’s owned - PookyD81
tuning company whose work has so impressed us, David Pook attributes at least part of his fascination with suspension and chassis behaviour to a radio-controlled car.
‘I was into suspension from an early age,’ he reveals. ‘It stemmed from my dad – an electronics engineer – bringing back a Tamiya Sand Scorcher from Japan when they first came out and building that up and seeing brilliant working suspension. It just grabbed me.’Enthralled by the Sand Scorcher, Pook went on to race radio-controlled cars at UK regional and national level until he left school.
‘I regard that as a great learning experience from the ages of 12 to 18. Fundamentally it shaped my mind into understanding how I might want a car to behave and why it might be doing one thing and not another, and then trying to make it achieve faster lap times or ride the bumps better.’Pook’s father was also a strong influence on his choice of career. ‘My dad had a couple of Rover SD1s: we did suspension changes to one of them, Koni dampers and Spax dampers and springs.
Armed with the certainty that he wanted to work in automotive engineering, Pook set himself clear goals during secondary school and went on to take a degree in automotive engineering and design at Coventry University. ‘At the time it was an almost experimental course,’ explains Pook, ‘aimed specifically at the engineering skills required in the car industry. So there was a lot of problem-solving and learning how to design and construct components to fulfil a function.
Meanwhile, Pook had passed his driving test. ‘My dad kindly bought me an old Mini Metro 1275, complete with 12in steel wheels, as my first car. It wasn’t long before that had a Maniflow Group N exhaust that used to wake the neighbours up, and I machined down the needle on the SU carbs, and took the manifolds off and split them, pumped the Hydragas up – I left the suspension standard. It made a lot of noise and was quite nippy.
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