Who here loves British films? The low budgets, the dry comedy and locations that we all know and love? Clockwise, released in 1986, is one of those perfect little films that […]
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 […]
You’ve heard it mentioned a dozen times and some will be bemused, amused or aghast with horror by the wonderfully naff Telly Savalas Visits Birmingham, but we have really got […]
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. […]
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