Diana and " The Count "

This car was my fourth car, purchased for £30 when I was in the Royal Navy circa 1957. A 1931 Austin Six 1 - 6 cylinder 2 seater with a " dickey seat " in the boot and a bench seat up front, with a gear lever knob the size of a cricket ball. It had a huge double fender or bumper at the front and a spare wheel in the offside running board. This photograph was taken on Good Friday at the annual marbles championships.

The body was coachbuilt with a fabric covered roof, and the car was very heavy so the performance was not brilliant, it also had cable brakes and so it would have been very dangerous to insist on your right of way when I approached a zebra crossing, and luckily nobody ever did.