Magnificent Cars

Much to my husband’s delight, we were favoured with a display of vintage and veteran cars here in Eastbourne, over the bank holiday weekend. Most of them were British, a bit of a novelty nowadays, as we no longer have a British car industry! The cars had been lovingly preserved, and even the engines were sparkling, and so clean that one could eat one’s lunch off them! I had some nostalgic moments when I saw cars that reminded me of the ones my parents and relatives used to own when I was a child, although I was disappointed not to see an old Riley, we had one, which was maroon and black, with running boards. In comparison, its replacement, a Vauxhall Cresta, looked very space age in the 1960s! Modern cars do not seem to be as well built as their predecessors; I doubt that many of them will survive long enough to be classified as vintage cars.

An amazing car story, reported by the BBC, caught my eye the other day.

Police are investigating exactly how the car managed to "take off" from street level and crash into the house in Basingstoke, Hants, UK, on Wednesday.

The men's condition is described as serious, but stable. Police want to speak to a third man, who was helped from the car but then left the scene.

The occupants (of the house) escaped uninjured as they were asleep in another bedroom.

Hopefully, the occupants of the car, when they have sufficiently recovered from their ordeal, will be able to enlighten us as to how they managed to launch their car 20 feet into the air! One wonders if the flying Ford Anglia of the Harry Potter tales is quite so surreal after all!