“They are at opposite ends of the economy/luxury spectrum,” said Richard Stone. Nearest the camera, agreed all of our old car spotters, was a Renault Dauphine. “Dauphines were cheap, economical, and comfortable but had questionable handling, limited power, and a propensity to rust away before the first MoT test, as did my employer’s,” said Richard. Mike Crawley said: “This brought back memories of the swinging Sixties for me when I was a junior salesman at a Renault dealership. “The Dauphine was a very basic car, costing £660 plus purchase tax in 1961. It had a rear engine which gave very strange, rear heavy handling, and many drivers carried a sack of potatoes or sand in the front luggage compartment to try to balance the weight distribution.