Austin Healey 3000 Mk II

WEDNESDAY


The first cars in the Three Castles Trials left Llandudno at 8:00 and headed to Bodrhyddan Hall for some driving tests on private roads there.

The route out of the Hall took them along Waen Road (my usual route to the bowling club), so I picked a couple of spots by the roadside to watch the sixty or so cars go by. The weather was dry and sunny, so all the convertibles had their soft tops down.

The car pictured is a 1963 Austin Healey 3000 Mk II. 

Back in the mid-1970s, when I was a student Environmental Health Officer in Bradford, one of the officers at the Keighley office drove one of these as his daily car. Even the more everyday cars back then—Cortina Mk IIIs, Triumphs, and Vauxhalls—had more style and character than most of what’s on the road today.

Back home by 10:30 and spent most of the day in the garden