et’s face it, before the arrival of the VW Golf, ordinary cars were pretty lousy. British cars of the 1950s and 1960s were small, slow and unreliable. Sports cars were basic but great fun until the oil crisis of 1973 – just the time drivers began to appreciate ‘classic’ cars because so much 1970s stuff was dross. There were outliers such as the outrageous Lamborghini Countach and the Porsche 911 RS and 930 Turbo, but they were beyond hen’s teeth and
