Vintage Memories

We have reproduced Vintage Memories, a very interesting article written a few years ago and published in The Cork Examiner, by our Senior Honorary Member James Twohig.

Hope you enjoy it.

Vintage Memories by James Twohig

My earliest motoring memory is from 1928 when local Monard farmer Paddy O’Sullivan bought a brand new black Ford Model A. The car was purchased in Clonakilty for £211 – a fortune then – and the price included driving instruction by a mechanic sent to live with the O’Sullivans for a week or so …