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Month: April 2020

Keswick-1973
Memories

Memories : Keswick, 1972

10 April 2020 Keith Adams 16

It’s August 1972, and we’re in the pretty Cumberland (now Cumbria) tourist hot spot of Keswick. The skies are blue, and the tourists are wandering up and down Main Street, […]

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Clockwise, Hull, 1985
Film and TV appearances

Memories : Clockwise film, Hull Paragon Station, 1985

10 April 2020 Keith Adams 21

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 […]

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Minder on the Orient Express
Memories

Memories : Arthur Daley’s car lot, London, 1985

8 April 2020 Keith Adams 21

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 […]

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Sainsbury's Edinburgh 1993
Memories

Memories : Sainsbury’s, Edinburgh, 1993

6 April 2020 Keith Adams 6

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 […]

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Sainsbury-Oldham-1987
Memories

Memories : Sainsbury’s, Oldham, 1987

5 April 2020 Keith Adams 15

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 […]

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Birmingham-1981
AROnline News

News : AROnline and The Baim Collection bring you a Telly treat… literally

5 April 2020 Mike Humble 13

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 […]

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Around the World

The cars : Mini MK3, South Africa

5 April 2020 Chris Cowin 1

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 […]

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Around the World

Around the World : South African Minis

5 April 2020 Declan Berridge 14

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 […]

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Swansea, Oystermouth Road Car Park
Memories

Memories : Swansea, 1983

4 April 2020 Keith Adams 13

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 […]

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Boston-1981
Memories

Memories : Boston, 1981

4 April 2020 Claire Cassey 115

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, […]

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Memories

Memories : Darlington, 1981

3 April 2020 Mike Humble 10

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 […]

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1982 Dunster
Memories

Memories : Dunster, 1982

2 April 2020 Keith Adams 7

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 […]

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Huandu CAC6430
Around the World

The cars : Huandu CAC6430

1 April 2020 Erik van Ingen Schenau 25

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 […]

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Opinion

Blog : How I hope things will be ‘on the other side’

1 April 2020 Keith Adams 40

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 […]

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Blackheath
Around the World

Around the World : Leyland South Africa/Leykor

1 April 2020 Declan Berridge 23

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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