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Work in progress - 1967 Austin A40 Farina. Family keeping. Father, mother and two daughters – the Hanley family are all pitching in to get this little Austin back on the road - words and photography by Eric Richardson. As the owner of any A40 Farina will tell you, once you get into a conversation about your car, there is about a 90 per cent chance you’ll hear one of two sentences. The first is usually: “I learned to drive in one of those”, a sentence delivered by those closer to their 60th birthday than they’d care to admit to. The second: “My dad had one of those”, is usually uttered by those enthusiasts who are somewhere in their forties.

Bugatti in detail. I have just read Mick Walsh’s article on the Bugatti EB110, and had not realised that the company had such a short life - only 1993-’95 in the UK!

I think it’s fair to say that I have a level of tolerance with the Scimitar – there are only a certain number of things that aren’t as I’d like them to be – before something else happens and tips the balance.

Not spinning in the rain. One of the good things about only racing Wooly Bully once or twice a year is that I haven’t been lured into trying to make the car, God forbid, competitive. If I was out there week in, week out, no doubt there would be plenty of self-imposed pressure to do this or that in an attempt to keep up with the rest of the pack.