Classic American

Mustang, Barracuda and Earls court's 60th Anniversary

For any car-obsessed kid, or adult, during the Sixties, a visit to the Earls Court Motor Show in London was the highlight of the motoring year. It was where the world’s manufacturers showed off their latest models, and American manufacturers were there to show what automotive exotica they could sell to European buyers.

A young Steve Miles was also one of that car-obsessed fraternity who visited the Motor Show virtually every year during the Sixties and who diligently photographed as many American cars as he could, as he had done in London and his home town of Oxford. By 1964, Steve had acquired a 35mm SLR camera, which he used to take the photographs shown here. By the late Fifties,

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