FROM ONE EXTREME...

Declan Connolly once had an Austin Seven, albeit one that had been converted to a flatbed for tradeshow use, having been used for exhibitions. The little Austin was then stored away, but eventually the time came to decide what to do with it and having trawled eBay, Declan came across an ad for the 1949 Packard Straight Eight Deluxe pictured on these pages. The ad read: ‘Selling because I cannot find suitable garage space’ and ‘Would be interested in part-exchange or swap for something new or Seventies’. The key was at the end of the sentence - ‘(smaller obviously)’. Now, let’s face it, that statement left the ballpark wide open, as something smaller covered most of the automobile field, with the Packard coming in at