Reply to post: Re: history

Messerschmitts, Sinclairs and a '50s living room: The Bubblecar Museum

Nigel Whitfield.

Re: history

When we had a mini (an N registered clubman, in lime green - it was the 1970s; my grandmother had a rust-orange K reg) they just seemed perfectly normal (and the mini was a definite improvement in many ways on the Hillman Imp we had before).

I remember driving up the motorway in it to the Lake District, probably 1977, and various other places. But I suspect now, it would feel rather scarier as so many of the other vehicles on the road have grown in size, not least the juggernauts.

(A neighbour had an even older mini, with the wire cord to open the door, and sliding windows; there were a lot of them about in those days).

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