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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.
![If you were to name a British sports saloon in the late 1970s that included the qualities of traditional sports cars, history, familiarity, relative affordability, high performance and innovation, then […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/IMG_2753.jpg "Auction Site Classic: 1980 Talbot Sunbeam Lotus – All The Right Ingredients")
![It’s been a long summer and I suspect I’m not unique in suffering. Given the lack of car shows (I’ve been to one, just one!), we’re all suffering from ESC(CorO)SDS, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200913_142822.jpg "Curbside Outtake: 1960-1967 Sunbeam Alpines – How Do You Take Yours?")
![Motor manufacturers, perhaps more than many entrepreneurs, have a history of putting their name over the door. Names that are now familiar now, such as Ford, Benz, Daimler, Porsche, Renault, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/DSC07837.jpg "Carshow Classic: 1934 Lanchester 18 Mulliner 6 Light Saloon – Remembering Dr Fred")
![(first posted 9/6/2014) I recently returned from a holiday in south-west France, and note again that one of the pleasures of travel is seeing how different countries handle their heritage: […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/r17.3.jpg "Curbside Classics: 1977 Renault 17 and 1980 Renault 18 – An Appeal To The People Of France (With A Nod To General de Gaulle)")
![A couple of Sundays ago I was in the right place at the right time. The sun was out, the temperature was up and the MX-5 was outside, flicking its […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/DSC00999-2.jpg "QOTD: Do You Ever Drive Purely For Pleasure?")
![Travelling has not been easy over the last few months but we managed to get to France for a brief break. Fixing the logistics got complex given the limits airlines […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200809_125135-2.jpg "Curbside Outtakes: French Holiday Outtakes Making Quarantine Acceptable")
![We’ve all seen, and probably tried, a compact SUV, and there are many, many to choose from, though not all of them vary as much you might expect. What is […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200226_135940.jpg "Curbside Driving Impressions: 2020 Citroen C5 Aircross Flair PureTech 130 – In Need Of A Sense Of Direction")
![Here’s one that I just had to look into. A 1964 Lancia Jolly van, which used the drivetrain of the Lancia Appia saloon, built from 1953 to 1963. Just over […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/s-l1600-12.jpg "Auction Site Outtake: 1964 Lancia Jolly Service Van – A Jolly Surprise")
![Is it an exaggeration to say that the English English translation for “truck” is not the traditional “lorry” or “wagon” but “Leyland”? After all, what was a provincial bus and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/s-l1600-4.jpg "Auction Site Classics: 1990 Leyland-DAF Roadrunner: Carrying So Much Than Just Horses")
![During one of those intensive (lockdown) research sessions that can be necessary for a CC Outtake around an old Leyland truck, I came across these linked videos, produced in 1973 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/leyland_marathon_2_4_2_tractor_000000ea04000316.jpg "Vintage Video (and More): Britain Enters Europe, And Starts A (Leyland) Marathon Journey")
![So, how do you deliver eight Land Rovers in 1950, and efficiently use expensive hydraulics? Let’s take a brief look at one of the more unusual British car transporters of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/40955166954_89d3ee41ea_o.jpg "Vintage Car Carriers: 1950 Leyland Beaver – Eight Land Rovers And Some Hydraulics"){kind=small}
![I recently gave CC a potted history of the first phase of my Dad’s car ownership history, as a way of adding context to a contemporary Chrysler UK advertisement which […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DSC05244-2-tile.jpg "Auction Site Classics: Won Over By The French?")
![Going into the back catalogue has been a popular, sometimes successful, sometimes less so, practice for the industry for twenty or more years. The Mini, Beetle, Ford Thunderbird, Jaguar S […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20191018_130607.jpg "Curbside Outtake: 2016 Citroen E-Mehari – Looking Forward And Back?")
![Auction sites have many cars we rarely see elsewhere, be it on the road, at car shows and classic meets or in museums. Looking through them is a Curbivore’s take […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/AETV79095086_2-tile.jpg "Auction Site Classics: Can the Chrysler Man Make You Happy? Ken Certainly Tried")
![Aston Martin is a name associated with quality, not quantity, with hand built cars, engines with plates identifying the assembling technician by name, and with absolute peak of a certain […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/49822008181_5138513866_o.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1990 Aston Martin Virage")
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