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If you go down to the woods today…

Auto Date Saturday, January 17th, 2009

..you’ll be sure to find an old car or two! Or so it seems. I was out of the office on Wednesday (yay!) to visit the Polybush factory in Wrexham. On the way there we shot past an old army base near Whitchurch in Shropshire.

I know this place well as I used to pass it on the way to Rhyl when my grandad had a couple of caravans there (oo, the glamour of my childhood). I spotted an old car in one of the sheds as we sped past, and made a note to stop on the way back - which is exactly what I did.

And this is what I found…

It would have been a pretty nice car once. I think its a Sunbeam Talbot dating from around 1954-55. I love the feeling of discovering an old car - especially one that’s so far gone and so far away I can’t feel sorry for it and bring it home with me!