Talbot Horizon, on A483 through Oswestry.
X plate so 1982, obligatory flat cap and specs worn by driver, scowl by female passenger. Car not mint but looked cared for daily driver; haven't seen one of those things on the road for ages. According to howmanyleft there are only 25 on the road in the UK.
My dad had one of those things as his first ever new car back in 1983; he'd had Fords before but wanted to support the local Peugeot dealer where two family members worked. Mum loved the seats, I hated pretty much everything about it from its rattly gutless engine (I really did think he'd bought a diesel when I first heard it) to the appalling gearchange and wallowy handling which made an Austin Maxi feel like a Lotus by comparison.
It lasted just seven years before succumbing to terminal tinworm. Horrible thing.
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