The man battling cancer by creating car

A person who was told by doctors he might have just three years left to live has actually utilised that time to design and develop a 1950s-design racing car.

Sculptor and former art instructor Neil Buxton was diagnosed with late stages of prostate cancer after being rushed to health center on Christmas of the year 2012.

Mr Buxton and a professional at Inverness’s Raigmore Hospital believe that his activities are helping him to survive.

The automobile, named Scot Special, passed its very first MOT this month.

It is more than 3 years given that Mr Buxton, 66, from Dulnain Bridge, in the Cairngorms, was discovered to have a tumour compressing his spinal cord.

As soon as that Christmas Eve, the cancer was so aggressive he was provided radiotherapy treatment all at.

Mr Buxton stated: “The expert told me, at the time, that I would live up to 3 years.” And, “Last fall he confessed he had not anticipated me to live beyond 6 weeks because of my spinal cord compression.”

“There were two other cancer patients of a same age as mine and they had conversation about all the cars they had over the years.
“I then had this idea that I wanted to create a car. I had this idea for car of a style same as the unique shapes of racing cars of the 1950s.
“I didn’t begin the car until November of 2013 as before I struggled to walk and it took a while to come to terms with my illness.”

Mr Buxton would then buy a Triumph Spitfire chassis, and start creating the car, drawing on skills and tools utilized to make his metalwork sculptures.

Some of the internal body work was created from scrapped washing machines.