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Tiff Needell

My family car as a boy was...

An Austin 7. Growing up in the relatively austere ’50s, our first family cars were a series of 20-year-old Austin 7s at £10 a go. We eventually traded up to an Austin A30 before the best of all – the Morris 1000. It was in the Morris that I learned to drive

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