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A new, interactive museum opening in May will allow visitors not only to see but also to drive some of the cars from yesteryear that their parents owned.
The Great British Car Journey will feature more than 160 classic cars on display, and offer visitors the chance to try one of 32 examples prepared for use on the museum’s private test track.
They were unreliable, unsafe, uneconomic, uncomfortable and, in many cases, downright ugly compared with what we drive around in today. Even so, you have to hand it to the cars of yesteryear. They had character. And they had colour, too.
Just look around you on the roads or in the supermarket car park this weekend and you will see assorted shades of grey with the odd smattering of pastel. Back in the good (or perhaps bad) old days of British motoring, people were perfectly happy ordering a car in banana yellow, tomato red or some truly execrable shades of brown.
Richard Usher launched Great British Car Journey, showing off collection covering British motoring history
In addition to the 130 cars which are on display, a further 32 vehicles can be driven by visitors for a fee
The venture is based in Ambergate, Derbyshire and will open to the public on May 22
Mr Usher made his money when he received portion of £110million sale of firm Auto Windscreens in 2001