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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.
![In the early 1960s the realisation was dawning—on some at least—that Britain needed to do a bit more in the way of innovation, in the application of science, engineering, industrial […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cinema-12.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1967 Bedford SB Mobile Cinema – From The White Heat Of Technology")
![The term Curbivore was coined by CC old timer Bryce in this post just over five years ago. It aptly defines people like you and me, feeding our endless automotive […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Scan.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD – What Made You A Curbivore?")
![There is no need to attempt to cover the full history of the Peugeot 504 here – Paul Niedermeyer did that thoroughly only recently, and the history of the Coupe […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/504-conv.9.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Peugeot Fest Outtake: Peugeot 504 Cabriolet – Is This The Best Looking French Car Ever?")
![The history of the British motor industry, especially that of BMC, BLMC and its successors is full of missed opportunities, dead ends and incomplete projects. Perhaps the most intriguing of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/DSC04936.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Carshow Classic – 2004 MG X Power SV: Not Exactly What Was Required")
![A street market has been held in Cambridge since the times of the Saxons, perhaps 1200 years ago. Logically, as this part of the city and of England is almost universally […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/DSC04824.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Carshow Photo Report – Market Hill, Cambridge, May 2016")
![Britain has a proud history of small car manufacturers, with names like Jensen and Morgan being familiar. Most have, or had, a unique proposition – Jensen had a Chrysler V8 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1976-relaint-Kitten.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Outtake: 1976 Reliant Kitten Estate – Four Wheels On My Robin")
![Should you meet your heroes? Many say “No, you will be disappointed in one way or another”. But what about meeting a true CC, a holder of the CC Grand’Croix […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1970-citroen-id.3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Driving Review – 1970 Citroen ID19 Familiale – Yes, You Can Meet Your Heroes.")
![Any Rover 3500 SD1 series 1 is a noteworthy sight. A left hooker, in France, with a Parisian registration and yellow headlights and in mid 1970s brown, is almost certainly […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1420.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 1977 Rover 3500 SD1 Series 1 – Calling To Me To Say “Release Me!”")
![I’ve recently started researching, for reasons that will become apparent later this spring, a feature for CC that includes some views of the post war shopping and business centre of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Cov-1961.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Streetscape Challenge UK: Outside Woolworth’s, Coventry, 1961")
![I have referred previously on CC to the Imperial War Museum (IWM) aircraft and military vehicle collection at Duxford, near Cambridge in England, and personally I cannot recommend it enough […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SR71.2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classics: The American Air Museum In Britain, part of the Imperial War Museum.")
![Fellow Curbivore GN has recently shown us a Car and Driver feature on the 1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, so it seems appropriate to show this, an example of something that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WP_20160313_001.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1985 Bentley Continental – What’s Not To Like?")
![Have you ever wondered if Europe had a car to match the Pontiac Fiero? Mid-engined, but derived from the ordinary? Composite bodywork? Dramatic styling? Pop up headlamps? I give you the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WP_20151228_003.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 1982 Talbot-Matra Murena 1600 – What Is French For Rarity?")
![You may have read the recent Curbside Classic review of the 1998-2005 Rover 75 saloon – an interesting proposition and well executed in many ways, though the question has to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Rover-150.4.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: Rover 150 – Which Way Are We Going?")
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