John McCrystal: The cars we loved

McCrystal has a nice way with a phrase. As he writes: "Most people probably think a McPherson strut is what Elle uses to get to the end of the catwalk and back."

Car buffs everywhere will grin because any fool knows the famous strut was one of the innovations brought to New Zealand by the Zephyrs, Consuls and Zodiacs.

British cars were once the only cars and it would be a hard-hearted baby-boomer who did not look back with nostalgia at the parade of classic and classy cars assembled within these pages.

From the 1940s to the 1950s McCrystal has located the proud owners of the products of names such as British Motor Corporation, Rootes Group, Vauxhall Motors and Jowett - now either long gone or dwarfed by the Japanese.


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