Post-war "Classics" at Beaulieu

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The traders sales park at Beaulieu is always fun. You'll never know what you'll come across there. Between really good motorcars and botoxed trader bangers you'll find oddballs who hardly deserve a postion in history yet still can learn you a lot. Like the horrendous marketing flop; the Nissan Mitsuoka, no larger than a Golf, yet with the mutilated face of a MkII and the rear end of a shrunken down London cab. A slightly better attempt of a fifties interpretation, recreation, reincarnation or tribute if you want  trying to get a parking place in the hall of fame of motoring is the joyful Nissan Figaro. On the other far end we found a fabulous Ashley bodied racer, that made us almost take out our wallewt until we found it was the slick disguise of a pre-war Austin Seven. Finally the one that made it in our view was this totally unexpected marriage of  Mrs. Citroën 2CV and Mr.  Model T . Motoring fun, that's what it's all about. Only one classic struck us by lightning, a truly classic classic bot byidentity and condition, yet nearly nobody gave it a single chance. A timecapsule of seventies motoring. An english rain eaten but totally honest-to-god '59 family car in the type of condition you would see on every street corner in the seventies, but now nearly totally vanished from the face of the earth. Now that one brought back memories!

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