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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.
![(first posted 7/2/2017) Renault long played the understudy to the leading role of innovator taken by Citroen. From the 1930s to the late 1980s, Citroen undisputedly was the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/bingo-card-2.jpg "Automotive History – An Outline History Of Renault, 1963-1986, Or The CC Guide To Renault Bingo")
![Blackpool, that most distinctive of English seaside resorts, has many special features and attractions. Not just the weather of Lancashire and the distinctive tower, modelled on the Eiffel Tower but […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/DSC00986-2.jpg "Tramway Classic: 1934 English Electric Balloon Tram – Resilience, With Electrical Power")
![(first posted 5/23/2013) By 1961, the Rootes Group was established as one of the Big Four in the UK, along with BMC (Austin/Morris/MG/Wolseley/Riley), Ford and Vauxhall (representing GM and then […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Hillman-Super-Minx-1966-fq.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1966 Hillman Super Minx – Rooting For Rootes")
![The UK has just had that most remarkable thing – a bright, sunny, warm public holiday weekend, over the last weekend in May. Normally, we expect rain; this year was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/20230527_100954-tile.2.jpg "Curbside Outtakes: All In Day’s Work")
![In late 1922, two young men in Blackpool, on the north west coast of England, started a business building motorcycle sidecars, named Swallow Sidecars. By 1926, the company built its […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/lyons.1.jpg "Carshow Outtake: 1932 Wolseley Hornet Special – Just One Swallow Helping Make A Summer")
![In Part 1 of this review, I showed some of the highlights of the UK’s Spring Alfa Day held in April, looking at the rear wheel drive cars. Here, we’ll […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG-20230416-WA0005.1.jpg "Carshow Photo Report: Spring Alfa Day 2023 – Part 2 – The Front Wheel Drive Cars")
![The carshow season is now opening up, and first out of the blocks, for me at least, was Spring Alfa Day at Duxford aircraft museum. An event that does exactly […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DSC00856.jpg "Carshow Photo Report: Spring Alfa Day 2023 – Part 1 – The Rear Wheel Drive Cars")
![(first posted 5/10/2017) These photos, posted on the CC Cohort by nifty43 (nifticus) and taken in Vancouver in March this year, confirm one thing, I suggest, and without much debate. The […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34303654606_c44552ed16_o.jpg "Cohort Classic: Citroen Ami 6 – The Greatest Ugly Car Ever?")
![Tomorrow sees something that has been happening in London for close to a thousand years, in an ever-evolving form. Even so, some things don’t seem to change – it has […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/GSC-1010.jpg "Coronation Outtake: 1762 Gold State Coach – All You Need To Know")
![The car show season is now opening, in the Northern Hemisphere at least. And what better way to start than Spring Alfa Day in the grounds of the Imperial War […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSC00834-2.jpg "Carshow Outtake: 2005 Alfa Romeo 156 Crosswagen Q4 1.9JTD – Almost Everything Alfa Wasn’t")
![Long time readers of CC may remember a history of the Land Rover series 1 I posted back in 2015. In it, I mentioned a trip made in 1955 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/1-100310095938.jpeg "Vintage Video: The First Overland, London to Singapore, 1955-56")
![(first posted 3/19/2017) Car museums come in many shapes and sizes, from the full professional experience at the newly revamped British Car Museum south of Birmingham to the immense collection […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DSC06471.1.jpg "Museum Report – The British Car Museum, Te Awanga, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand")
![Small sales volume does not mean failure or insignificance. This car, a 2015 VW XL1 posted on the Cohort, may be one of only 28 sold in the UK and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/buyers_guide_-_xl1_-_front_quarter.jpg "Cohort Classic: 2015 Volkswagen XL1 – This Was The Future, Once")
![(first posted 3/3/2017) You must know the feeling, the sense that the familiar is not quite right, but you can’t immediately spot it. The first time you see your sports […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DSC06431.jpg "CC Outtake: 1975 Austin 1300 MK3 – Please Do Not Adjust Your Set")
![The rental car roulette wheel has come up with another interesting choice, a fact finding opportunity for a UK based Curbivore and a perfectly practical, and adequately capable if almost […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20230208_130303.jpg "Rental Car Review: 2021 MG ZS 1.0T-GDi Excite Automatic – Anonymous Now Has A Famous Name")
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