{"product_id":"3000-mkiii-wire-spoke-t-shirt","title":"3000 MkIII Wire Spoke T-Shirt - Dean's Classic Cars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart of the Toolforged line, from Dean's Classic Cars.\u003c\/strong\u003e Every car in this line is built from the tools that kept it running (spanners, sockets, cogs, plugs and pressed steel), arranged until the shape of the car appears out of them. No badges, no wordmarks, no logos on the car itself: just the machine, drawn in the language of the workshop floor. If you have ever had the bonnet up on a cold morning with your knuckles bleeding and the radio on, this line was made for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRight car. Wrong materials. Entirely on purpose.\u003c\/strong\u003e The silhouette, the stance and the year are true to the car. Everything filling them in is workshop steel that has no business being there. A socket where the grille sits. Spanners laid across a roof. A calliper behind a wheel it was never bolted to. Go looking for a part in the wrong place and you will find one, and that is the whole point: this is the car as the tools that kept it running would draw it, not a photograph of it. Zoom in. That is where the fun is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA 1966 3000 MkIII BJ8 sports car, forged from the tools that kept it alive, on 180gsm organic cotton.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFront three-quarter with the hood down and the bonnet off, sat inside a thin concentric ring with Dean's signature across the top. Look once and it is a 3000 MkIII: the oval grille with its vertical bars, round lamps out in the wings, the flanks dipping at the doors. Look again and the whole car is spanners and steel, with the long straight-six laid bare in the bay and wire wheels with knock-off spinners on all four corners. The plate is black with silver characters, as it should be in 1966, and a torque wrench lies across the bottom, engraved with the year and the car. The MkIII was the last and quickest of the 3000s: 2.9 litres of straight-six, a walnut dash and wind-up windows, and still on wire wheels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuilt from the tools that built it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDean's Classic Cars is one man's obsession, made wearable. Dean has spent his life around British cars from the era when you could still fix one on your own driveway, and every design in the collection starts from a real car, checked against the real specification, before a single tool is drawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat matters, because the people who buy these know. They know how many wiper arms a Series 1 E-Type carried. They know a Mexico ran a pushrod Kent, not a twin cam. So nothing here is decorative guesswork. Get the car right and the artwork earns its place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt a glance:\u003c\/strong\u003e t-shirt on a Stanley\/Stella Creator 2.0, 100% organic cotton, 180 g\/m² single jersey. Unisex medium fit, sizes S to 5XL. Printed to order, most orders arrive in 5 to 10 working days. UK delivery £4.99, free on orders of £85 or more. 30-day returns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout this piece\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 3000 sits in front three-quarter view with the hood folded and the engine on show, printed large on the front of a Stanley\/Stella Creator 2.0 t-shirt (STTU169) in black. Spanners make the bodywork, the straight-six fills the bay and wire wheels sit at every corner, drawn in bright metal against the dark cotton so the shape reads clean from across a room. 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