Play and imagination are often our first human experiences, so there’s every chance you were given a toy car as a child. That was certainly the case with me, and as a kid, my parents often told me I was happiest and often stayed out of trouble if I had a toy car with me. Sadly most of those Matchboxes and Corgis are mostly long gone, played within inches of their lives and eventually thrown away. But it fuelled my passion for cars, and as a result, model cars are never far away from me.
The combination of nostalgia and subject matter was enough for me to start a display when I stumbled into adulthood, seeking out ordinary road cars, rather than supercars or cars outside my era. This was…
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Classic Ford (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2024