Cat. No.1980/1a. W91.5 x H33 inches  (W2680 x H840 mm) . Limited edition of 250,  not mounted or framed, limited edition, numbered and signed by Tony
£325 including Packing and postage worldwide.
Not sure why I did it except perhaps as a backdrop for our stand at the NEC International Motor Show in 1980.
 
Back story.
People kept saying to me “Tony, you have created cars for other people and made them rich, do it for yourself. 
So I set up my own company .  I designed and we (???? And myself mainly) made in very low volume all sorts of cars and vans which will come onto the website anon.  But what I really wanted to do was make a sexy little All-British (English) sports car.
So, eventually I designed the Stevens Cipher.  A sort of mini, affordable, Ferrari.  Although we never got into the large scale production I intended it was an important and influential car in Motor Industry terms, which I will explain below.
 
Stevens cipher. A turning point in the Motor Industry. 
As the hysteria surrounding Ralph Nadar’s car safety campaign in the USA gathered momentum during the 1970’s the major car makers around the world decided that it was inevitable that it would be impossible to get through the proposed safety tests with an open car. So they stopped investing in them and wound them down and out of production. I did not believe this. The situation was taken so seriously that it is said that one major maker of soft top frames in the USA declared that he was not going to be put out of business by some lawyer. Closed his factory and sold all the special-purpose machinery for scrap. The only major manufacturer who did not seem to get the message was FIAT who continued undaunted with their X19 model, which was not really taken seriously by anyone, either as a sports car or real convertible. The Sienna was a nice little car, but not what the market, or I, wanted So I next designed and built the Stevens Cipher.
 
-Tony Stevens