Treasures and truths unearthed at the Classic Motor Show
Other autojumble finds included a 1960s book on Rolls-Royce Phantoms by DB Tubbs, a handbook for the S1 Bentley I've got, plus a novel called Four Wheel Drift that I have already given up on, but at least has a good cover image by Dexter Brown.
I managed to buy two Telegraph Motor Show special colour supplements from the 1970s, but didn’t get back to buy two or three 1960s Geneva show posters which were cheap at a fiver apiece I thought.
Looking around the classics a little more I convinced myself of how absurd '50s American cars are, and then tried to understand people's current obsession with radically modifying perfectly good classics like the semi-pimped Jensen interceptor I spotted.
The NEC as a location doesn’t get any prettier and the whole event took me back to the early '80s when I went to one of the first new car motor shows held there after the event moved from Earls Court.
It was sobering to think that some of the cars that were there then as new models are now in the classic show.
Which makes me feel old.