Nova GSi Cog Grille Mid-Weight Sweatshirt - Dean's Classic Cars

Part of the Toolforged line, from Dean's Classic Cars. 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.

Right car. Wrong materials. Entirely on purpose. 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.

The lighter of our two crew necks. A 1991 Nova GSi, forged from the tools that kept it alive, on a mid-weight French terry sweatshirt you can wear from March to November.

Front three-quarter, sat square on its wheels inside a thin concentric ring with Dean's signature across the top. Look once and it is a facelift Nova GSi: the shape, the stance, the plate correct in white. Look again and the grille is a gear cluster with a single cog sitting exactly where the badge would be, which is how every car in this line solves the badge problem: put a part there instead. The panels are pressed steel and tool faces throughout. A long ratchet lies across the bottom of the ring like an underline.

Built from the tools that built it.

Dean'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.

That 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.

At a glance: mid-weight crew neck sweatshirt on a SOL'S Comet, French terry in 80% organic cotton and 20% recycled polyester. Unisex regular fit, sizes S to XXL. 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.