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- Drives an Alfa Romeo Giulietta and a 1996 Alfa Romeo Spider when the suns shines at the weekend. Gradate of Coventry University, Britain's Detroit.
![(Updated 11/4/2026) If you were to name a British sports saloon in the late 1970s that included the qualities of traditional sports cars, history, familiarity, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/IMG_2753.jpg "1980 Talbot Sunbeam Lotus: All The Right Ingredients")
![My Alfa Romeo Spider was due for its annual MOT, the UK’s periodic safety and roadworthiness inspection for cars three to forty years old. Having recently moved on from my […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2027/10/20260415_093148-tile-1-115x115.jpg "Curbside Finds: 1982 Matra Murena, 1985 Saab 90, 2000 Audi A6, — Three Amigos At Rest?")
![(Updated 10/26/2026) 1981 was a tough year in Britain. There were riots in many cities that summer, against government policies, or more accurately the perceived lack of effect—or even […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1981-Trimph-Acclaim-CD-1.jpg "Carshow Classic: 1981 Triumph Acclaim CD – A Triumph, To Any Acclaim?")
![(Updated 10/21/2026) I’ve said it before, but the Curbside Cohort is the gift that just keeps giving. Following on from the 1960 Vauxhall Victor we saw […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/50368378638_27ec1733b4_o.jpg "Curbside Find: 1961 Envoy Sherwood – A Vauxhall For Canada")
![(Updated 10/17/2026) In the history of our favourite industry, many great names, perhaps most, can be traced back to the drive, ambition and ingenuity of one person, who would often […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/leaper.jpg "Jaguar and Sir William Lyons: One Man’s Passion For Gracefulness, Beauty And Speed")
![Alfa Romeo—and Alfa Romeos—get into your system, and often the only credible response is to meet some fellow patients (or enthusiasts, as I prefer to call them) for a little […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2028/09/rwd-summary.1-115x115.jpg "Car Show Classics – South West Alfa Day 2026")
![Loyal CC follower Big Paws spotted this Thunderbird on holiday in Sonoma, and what a good reason this is for having gone there. He was only able to get one shot, but […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/DSC_9291.crop_.jpg "1962 Ford Thunderbird SportsWagon Conversion – What’s Not To Like About The Vista-Bird Thunder Cruiser?")
![(Updated 9/12/2026) The Morris Marina was the first new car from the newly merged British Leyland (BLMC) and illustrates clearly why the volume car business of the preceding BMC had […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/a-Marina.jpg "Carshow Classic: 1973 Morris Marina Coupe 1.8TC – A BLMC Deadly Sin")
![(Updated 9/12/2026) For many people in Nazi dominated Europe, the distinctive silhouette of an Avro Lancaster against a moonlit sky (or in the beam of searchlights) in 1943 or […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lancaster-burning-and-turning.jpg "1945 Avro Lancaster B1 – Even More Than The Sports Car, This Is The Shape Of Freedom")
![(Updated 9/7/2026) Styling is always, at least in part, an expression of a fashion, and of influences from elsewhere, hinting at glamour by association, claiming sophistication or […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IMG_20200805_090924641.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1977 Vauxhall VX2300GLS – The End Of The British Vauxhall, The End Of Americana?")
![(Updated 8/27/2026) CC has recorded previously my nomination for the most significant cars of the 1960s, the 1970s and 1980s. You can probably guess my nominee for the most […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1955-Morris-Minor-4.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1955 Morris Minor Series II – Britain’s Favourite Car, Bar None, And Rightly So.")
![London’s Science Museum, established in 1857 to house exhibits from the Patent Museum and the 1851 Great Exhibition, has long been a major attraction on London’s museum circuit. Its extensive […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2027/08/20260711_103203-tile-115x115.jpg "Museum Warehouse Photo Report – The Science Museum Group Collection In The Hawking Building")
![(Updated 8/8/2026) Last May 23, I was fortunate enough to have a piece published on CC, about a car my dad did buy: a 1966 Hillman Super […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1974-Sunbeam-Rapier-H120_2.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1973 Sunbeam Rapier H120 – The Car I Wanted My Dad to Want")
![(Updated 7/28/2026) There are two cars from Vauxhall in the after war period that truly remain in the popular memory: the compact Viva series and the larger Vauxhall Victor. The […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1961-Victor-F-series.1.jpg "Carshow Classics: 1961-1972 Vauxhall Victor – Luton Salutes The Victor")
![(Updated 7/22/2026) CC recently featured a review of the Austin Maxi. To recap, the Maxi was a cut down version of the BMC Austin and Morris 1800 (the Landcrab) with […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1977-Austin-Maxi.jpg "Curbside Capsule: 1977 Austin Maxi – Big On The Inside But Not The Outside")
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