Mercury Rising

Murphy has been patched up, at considerable expense, so Basil and I travelled to Cumberland Road Trading Estate in Loughborough to pick him up.

Outside the garage, we saw this classic car. I've had to look it up. The Mercury Eight was produced in the second half of the late 1940s. This particular one possibly dates from 1951.

It looks great from the outside but the interior is totally trashed. Graham at the garage intends to rebuild it, a speciality of his. It could take years.