It made me smile.
Not because I ever owned one.
Or even knew someone who owned one.
Possibly because it reminded me of my childhood.
This story in The Telegraph got me thinking about cars from that era. Not for the first time, but today's post will be a bit more Hegarty-ish.
Hegarty are an insurance company that seem to specialise in classic cars but also produce a magazine for classic car enthusiasts. I always thought Hegarty were American. I was right. They usually have an article at the weekend on the Fox News car page listing 5 or 10 classics in some context. But they also have a British arm.
Lead story at this time is "London to Lisbon in Little George", the story of the triennial (happens every three years) London to Lisbon Rally organized by the Historic Endurance Rallying Organisation (HERO) with Hagerty International as both sponsor and competitor in a barn-found 1930 Austin Ulster (Little George). The article is interesting but feels like it was written by a Year 7 student doing a "What I did in the Summer Holidays" essay. He must have been a bit behind with his homework too because the Rally happened in Spring 2013.
Anyway, as The Telegraph article points out, Hegarty are also sponsoring The Festival of the Unexceptional, subtitled, "Concours de l'ordinaire" inviting you to "Celebrate Your Mundane Classic". A car show for once mass-produced cars that you wouldn't look twice at twenty years ago but are now virtually disappeared from our roads.
I would love to go but it's just too far away.
Probably not welcome would be the Top Gear Team.
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