Classic Car Buyer Magazine No.229 New British Car Museum? Edizione posteriore

They say that the two things
most capable of spearing
directly into the nostalgia
centre of your brain are music and
smells. I would agree with that;
surely we’ve all got at least one song
or composition where within the first
few bars we’re transported back to a
particular time and place?
I experienced a rather intense
nostalgia trip this week while
driving, of all things, our beige 1983
Vauxhall Carlton estate. After a long
absence this has been patched
up and returned to service and I
was driving out into Norfolk for an
upcoming CCB feature.
While I have no direct personal
connection with a Vauxhall Carlton,
’Eighties estate cars hit a lot of
my nostalgia buttons. It was a
hot day and, since the Carlton’s
radio doesn’t work, the only music
available, beyond that which I
was singing to myself, were two
cassettes left over from its European
road trip nearly two years ago: The
Best of Dusty Springfield (good) and
The Best of Donna Summer (not so
good).