Gone in the blink of an eye

OWNED BY Keith Fox FIRST CLASSIC Lancia Fulvia Sport Zagato DREAM CLASSIC ‘Blue Train’ Bentley Gurney Nutting Coupé My first old car was a Volkswagen Beetle, but back in the ’70s it wasn’t yet cherish

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If it hadn’t been for a keen online rival bidder, you would now be reading about how I’d just bought a Renault Avantime and how I was embarking on an ill-judged foray into weird French car ownership.

Graham Proud has, for the past 28 years, been one of the organisers of a small classic car group known as the Whitby Area Classic Vehicle Club. One of the organisation’s members, Dick Hoyle, recently