Everson was a small-scale New Zealand car manufacturer built around Cliff Everson, who learned metalworking and welding as a teenager at his father Ern's business, Everson Welding Works, in Auckland during the early 1950s. Ern Everson had himself built several one-off aeroplanes and sports cars called the Cherub while Cliff was growing up, and this hands-on background shaped Cliff's later career. After becoming known for racing a modified Ford Anglia,…