MY NINE 1960s STUDENT CARS
About this book
This is a book of the nine cheap cars I ran during my student years in the1970s. I begin by sharing my schoolboy passion for cars and I give a critique of each car I owned and also include many personal memories associated with each car. It is a glimpse of student motoring life forty odd years ago when you had to climb stacked scrapped cars to obtain the spare part you needed. I begin my motoring years with a Lambretta Scooter which I used as transport to my first summer job at the steelworks. I explain the good and bad points of each car, what went wrong and touch on the quality of engineering. I often digress and explain what it was like to grow up in the heady 1960s motoring scene and I also give my opinionated comments on why I believe the British car Industry failed. A lot of my observations are based on lengthy test reports which were typical of the 1960s consumer magazine.