Boot sale bargains and reliving the Yank invasion
On another matter, I can’t seem to settle into any bedtime reading at the moment and, even though I know things are really desperate if I’m reading car books, really enjoyed Over Here: The American Car in England in the 1960s.
Author Steve Miles' boyhood hobby was photographing Yank cars on London streets and he’s unearthed 300 great shots of almost every type you can imagine, simply being used as everyday transport swooping along Park Lane or through Piccadilly.
What fascinated me was the number of Billy-basic poverty models that were being brought in – rubbish straight-six stuff, not just Cadillacs and Lincolns – and how common American cars seemed to be in the UK back then.
