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If you’re going to cut your teeth as a taxi driver, where better than at Goodwood Revival’s Glamcabs – in a 1926 Vauxhall 30/98?

WORDS John Simister // PHOTOGRAPHY Simon Hucknall, Jakob Ebrey

THE GLAMCABS HQ is just across the road. What a carry-on. Mk1 Ford Cortinas are their usual transport, but in the minicab world Ford has long vied with Vauxhall. So I’m going to invade their pitch with an example of the automotive opposition. It’s not quite a Cortina rival, though. More a Bentley competitor, which is why up to now it has been in the grander queue of carriages along with several mature Rolls-Royces. I saw one of them earlier, a late-1920s closed example noiselessly chasing a Mercedes Sprinter van past the Goodwood Hotel. My borrowed Vauxhall is a member of Britain’s 1920s automotive aristocracy, of course, but it’s also a General Motors product.GM bought Vauxhall in 1925, this car was built in 1926. Not that American influences took root until the…

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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015

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