Club shows some muscle

PETER and Jean Secombe with their 1958 Cadillac Coupe

VEHICLE lovers flocked to the King George V Playing Fields in Uppermill for the annual car show by the American Auto Club North West.

Gleaming Mustangs, Chevrolets, Buicks, Chryslers, Cadillacs were among the 90 or so vehicles on display, covering the 1940s up to present day models at the event, on the Yanks weekend.

The rarest included a 1972/3 Plymouth Cuda, a 1948 Plymouth remodelled as a hot rod and a cream and red 1959 Ford Fairlane with a retractable roof.

Auto club chairman Bernie Murphy said: "They are all so different. American cars would have a new model for each year - a '58 is completely different to a '59 - that's why people like them."

William Rhodes from Stalybridge, who was showing his 1958 Plymouth Savoy, agreed.

The same model was used as "extras" and stunt cars in the 1983 horror film Christine about a killer car and he said: "I love the style that they produced in the 1950s and 60s, the individuality and the quality."