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The Great British Car Journey museum offers the ultimate nostalgia trip – you can drive the exhibits

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 

Take a trip down memory lane ... at the wheel of Dad’s car New museum puts visitors in driver’s seat of classics the like Austin 7 and Morris Minor that made motoring accessible to British families 21 April 2021 • 5:00pm Classic cars on display at The Great British Car Journey will include, clockwise from top left, the Austin Maestro, Morris Minor Million, and Vauxhall Chevette Anyone of a certain age might remember piling into the back of their parents’ old banger and heading off for a day at the seaside, or a run to the swanky new shopping centre. Cars such as the Austin 7, Morris M...