Online, at 4.00am, in Masterton, 14 years ago. Bought unseen…
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How do you rate the overall condition, out of 10? Now it’s a 10 – currently better than new.
The driving characteristic you like most? Light and responsive. Not the quickest in a straight line but pretty good at the twisty stuff.
Anything unusual about your car’s history? It had had 30 owners over its time before I bought it in 2007. I met with the original owner who lived in Takapuna and was thrilled to see it resurrected. He gave me a picture of the car taken on the day he brought it home. Apparently it was the dealer demo car for a while before he bought it.
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HILLMAN IMP AND SINGER CHAMOIS CARS AWAITING SHIPMENT AT ROOTES , SCOTLAND LIMITED , LINWOOD , PAISLEY .February 1965 Pic: Herald and Times DRIVING tests – or the lack of them, thanks to the pandemic – are in the news this week. It prompted Times Past regular Dan Harris to get in touch with two fantastic tales about his own attempt to get a driving licence back in the 1950s. They are bound to strike a chord with our readers – as are our photos from the days of Rootes car factory at Linwood and its Hillman Imps and Minxes. Please get in touch to share your memories too, we’d love to hear them.
Listen up, all of you at the back of the classroom. We ve always loved visiting our cuzzies across the dutch (sorry, ditch). For a lot of us it had almost become Hobbit forming (we re even starting to talk like them, what with all of this inflationary bubble business).
But we ve been worlds apart for more than a year now, thanks to you-know-what, and much has happened in that time. There s a whole heap of new attractions, hotels, restaurants, places to discover and old favourites with which to reconnect.
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Now that we re finally able to return to our if not nearest, certainly dearest, neighbour, it s time to brush up on those old Kiwi playbooks, re-learn what we ve been missing, check out what s new and polish up our manners. What could possibly go wrong, aside from a sudden snap lockdown or two?
Madness Suggs jokes he had to work at the tiny premiere of his own documentary
Madness star Suggs jokingly fumed that he had to work at the London premiere for the band s upcoming docuseries Before We Was We: Madness by Madness
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Madness star Suggs suggests band would be criminals without fame and music
Madness front-man Graham McPherson said he and his fellow bandmates were on a dangerous path into criminal territory before music steered them in a better direction
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Madness front-man Suggs has gone into detail about the band’s illegal past - and suggested they may all be criminals if not for their music.