KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY
Chris Steele can almost remember the excitement when his father phoned his grandmother one day and said, “You have to come and look at this car!”
His father was the service manager for a Rootes Group agency, and someone had brought in a one-year-old 1966 Hillman Super Minx with 2700 miles on it as a trade-in. It was quite a step up from his grandad’s Austin A40.
“On the same day, they drove away in it,” says Chris. He doesn’t really actually remember the occasion, as he wasn’t even born then, but the car has been such a constant in his life, and the story has been told so often, that it’s almost as if he remembers being there.
You can imagine the excitement. Compared with an A40; the similar-sized Austin Cambridge; and, especially, the Minx, which was still being sold alongside the Super Minx at the time, the new car would have seemed very modern.
