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Pensioner reunited with first car

A pensioner is celebrating after being reunited with his beloved Morris Minor car 50 years after he first drove it. John Nagle, 67, managed to trace the 1934 vehicle’s latest owner in Essex and couldn’t resist buying it again.

He told the Sun: “It was my first car and I called it Emmeline for some reason. It was a smashing motor and you develop a special love for your first car, a bit like your first girlfriend.”

Emmeline still has her old log, with John’s handwritten notes in it, showing he bought her in 1958 for £30. He sold the green convertible five years later, when he got an Austin A35 company car, for just £20. She was a bit more expensive this time around - costing John £4,500.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .