Month: April 2020

Remember when the family all crowded around the telly to all watch the same thing? Remember when TV specials were an event? Back in the 1980s, longer-length specials of the […]

It’s September 1993 and we’re overlooking the Sainsbury’s car park at Craigleith Road, Edinburgh. It’s a week day, and there are plenty of spaces left in the capital’s major supermarket […]

It’s 15 October 1987, and we’re in the early months of the third term of Margaret Thatcher’s Tory premiership. Prosperity is returning to the UK after a stinging period of […]

Chris Cowin takes a look at the South African Mini ‘MK3’ of 1969-71, and pieces together an interesting and little-told story. We focus on the confusingly-named Mini MK3, which combined […]

South Africa produced the Mini in an interesting variety of body combinations not seen elsewhere… These included the Wolseley 1000, the Mini K and a strange Mini MK3 – a […]

It’s September 1983, and we’re at the Oystermouth Road car park in Swansea joining the shoppers as the Park and Ride for the city centre. The view is very typical […]

Your town or city definitely had one, perhaps even two, or three in some cases. Not red-light districts, but BL dealers. Lest we forget, Mann Egerton, Henlys and the like, […]

Another snapshot in time, public transport-style from the Northgate roundabout in Darlington, circa 1981 – Mike Humble’s neck of the woods… I’m not sure if this is summer time, or […]

We’re back in the West Country for more memories – although, following our recent trip to Winkleigh in Devon, we’re further north, and have travelled back in time a further […]

Outwardly, it looked like a Morris Ital with a nicer-looking front bumper, but underneath, it sported new (well, old) underpinnings. The Huandu was built in Western China and proved fairly […]

If you’re here for car nostalgia, and to escape Coronavirus (COVID-19), this is probably one post you can skip. But if you accept that we’ll come out of the other […]

British car production in South Africa following the end of the Second World War initially amounted to CKD (Completely Knocked Down) production of Austins and Standard Vanguards by local producers. […]