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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.
![I recently posted a photo report from the Festival of the Unexceptional held this summer, in which I focussed on the British built (and badged) cars. Here’s a quick photo […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20240727_125820-tile.2.jpg "Car Show Photo Report: The 2024 Festival Of The Unexceptional – Part 2 – Unexceptional But Exceptional, And Not British")
![CC has seen the Festival of the Unexceptional before, back in 2018 and 2019. The show itself is a very simple idea, and is billed as “A celebration of long-forgotten […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240727_113609.jpg "Car Show Photo Report:The 2024 Festival Of The Unexceptional – Part 1 – Unexceptional But Exceptional, and British")
![(first posted 9/3/2018) CC does not normally go back 90 years – I guess 20 to 60 years is our real sweet spot – but this one was too good […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1929-Austin7-7.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1929 Austin Seven – Helping Put The World On Wheels")
![Car shows turn up unexpected gems; either something that was once common and is now not, was always rare everywhere but somehow one endures, or that look to have been […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20240803_104750-tile.jpg "Car Show Outtake: ’59 Edsel Ranger And ’72 Ford Pinto – An Unusual Compare And Contrast")
![I shared a photo report from the recently opened Great British Car Journey museum, and teased that there was something else, other than a great collection of memorable British cars, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Minor.1.jpg "Museum Classic: 1957 Morris Minor 1000 Tourer – Driving Dad’s Car, Almost")
![The number of UK car museums –with heavily revised and expanded collections such as British Motor Museum (BMM)– available seems to be increasing and has inevitably led to some interesting […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20240616_125627.jpg "Museum Photo Report: The Great British Car Journey, Ambergate, England – For The Memories, Not The Glamour")
![(first posted 7/13/2018) Back in 1968, BLMC launched a car that took the Mini concept to a larger size, offering generous space for five and hatchback practicality. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/WP_20180503_15_48_07_Pro_LI.1.jpg "Future Curbside Classic: 2018 MINI Countryman Cooper 2.0D Automatic – If You Scratch The Surface, There’s A Capable Car")
![(first posted 5/24/2018) As I have changed from being a Ford driver to an Alfa Romeo owner, I am much more attuned to catching examples of Alfa’s wonderful […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/27893661438_6cddcdbbd3_o.jpg "Cohort Classic: 1970-77 Alfa Romeo Montreal – An Alfa With a Racing Heart")
![Does this denote the start of the season, as they used to say in London? The FBHVC (the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs, the club of historic and classic […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20240421_130357-tile.1.1.1.jpg "Car Show Photo Report – FBHVC Drive It Day 2024")
![Something a bit different; two CCs of some note given their locations, one outside a used car trader on a British industrial estate and the other on a side street […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20240330_121531-tile.1.jpg "Curbside Outtakes: Daimler Series III or ’70 Cadillac De Ville – The Best In The World Or The Standard Of The World?")
![It’s a holiday weekend (in many places, not everywhere of course) and as one of the alternatives to gardening we gladly offer here, here’s a photograph of Luton Airport from, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/116909454_10220409052528239_3125874506832620431_n.jpg "Vintage Photo Outtake: Luton Airport Car Park, 1980")
![Many many magazines have been sold by the presence of a Ferrari, Aston Martin, Corvette or Rolls-Royce on the cover, accompanied by “Exclusive First Test” type headlines. But, inevitably, many […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/title-join.jpg "Vintage Review: CAR Rates The Worst Cars of 1985 – Lada Riva, Reliant Rialto, Citroen 2CV and Skoda Estelle")
![(first posted 12/29/2013) The Morris 1100 of 1962 was one of the most innovative and significant cars of its type and of its generation, but its replacement, the 1973 Austin […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/allegro_6.jpg "Carshow Classic: 1975 Austin Allegro – Another BLMC Deadly Sin")
![Selling cars in an international environment is a complex thing to achieve successfully. Even ignoring (not that you can) regional and national variations in regulations, the potential issues and pitfalls […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DSC01901.2.jpg "Car Show Outtake: 2011 and 2012 Chrysler Ypsilon – Or Are They?")
![I’ve posted previously from trips to New Zealand, during which I captured various curbside and museum sightings of note. We’ve recently returned from another visit and, whilst I didn’t focus […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/bedford-1-tile.jpg "Curbside Outtakes: New Zealand Never Disappoints")
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