Ever wondered what happened to your long-gone city-centre car dealerships? An enthusiast in 1980s Edinburgh guides us around the city's lost motoring past
With his scrapbook for a wormhole, Whitton is here with me and Autocar staff photographer Max Edleston to retrace his steps.was deep in transaxle territory with the 924, 928 and 944. The ‘basic’ 911 was the SC , the 930’s whale tail had deepened into a tea tray and Derek Bell and Jacky Ickx led all three 956s onto the podium at Le Mans.
“The place was really small, but they were doing big jobs in there – engines out,” recalls Whitton. “Yet the workshop was spotless. They would show me what they were working on and talk me through it.” Miller tells me over the phone that cars always spilled out onto the street ahead of 1 August new registrations. “The traffic wardens came in minibuses,” he jokes.In fact, Miller occasionally let Whitton shuffle cars about – as good as the keys to the kingdom for an octane-high youth. Whitton even recalls moving specific cars and the unmistakable smell inside the unregistered ones.
By 1986, Glen Henderson Porsche had deserted the city centre for a bigger site on Edinburgh’s margin. But around the corner, on quaint Belford Mews, Ian Cunningham’sgarage would survive until 2001. It had stopped selling new Bentleys in the 1960s but continued in servicing and restoration.
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