Couple more from tonight's plundering of family albums..... Both these vehicles belonged to my Uncle who was one of the few car-owners in the family at the time and whose cars thus provided me with my earliest motoring memories. I cannot recall the Seven, only the A40 Devon that followed, but I do r...

Pretty sure that is a Winchester like that in Gaydon, maybe a little newer but they didn't change too much over the years.

Agreed, not my first port of call for a 1950s quality sports saloon. Ol' Green'un has some history too.....

A ding on a patinated 1950s car is not worth worrying overly about. Far better for folk to fret about their leased tanks with impossible paint finishes and razor-edge flanks that cost ££££ to rectify before the eagle-eyed handback appraisals....

That is a particularly rare example - most Sapphires were "Six-Light" meaning three side windows each side whereas that is one of a couple of hundred or so made with the "Four-Light" window configuration. Yeah the paintwork is a bit "surprising" - looks like it was left...

There is an awful lot about that listing that would make me run a mile.

This ain't Ougadougou, M8.



Page 190, innit.

Apparently each new generation or revision of Transit is handed to Border Force for a minute inspection of cavities and factory methods of trim affixing.... I got a very close call coming back from France in my Granada with the ex missus who had stashed some weed in her luggage. They knew the driver...

"You with these feckin cabs....Costin me an arm an a leg"

Point taken. Although my chuffing, leaky pushrods are also never the cause of MOT problems.....



Assuming they make it there, of course.