Object of desire...

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With the current motoring world going forward in constant leaps and bounds with advanced technology, perhaps a thought as to what breakthroughs there were in the mid-1970’s to the keen motorist, judging by the assorted product adverts in motoring magazines back then. John Ward reports.

Lighten your load with these mini marvels

1953 SCOOP Ah – them were the days! I bought my copy of Scoop at Hurleys, a wonderful but now extinct little department store half way between Balham and Tooting Bec. Just look at that box lid! Remini

Here’s a motor we all should have bought: this 1976 Ford Escort RS 1800, priced at a bit over £3000 when new, has just sold at a Historics auction in Berkshire for £279,000. Apparently this was Ford’s

CONSIDER FOR A moment, as we are pressured into adopting zero-emissions vehicles and the ban on the sale of fossil-fuelled vehicles becomes imminent, that Britain, in public transport at least, was on