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Is this Oxfordshire's oldest car?
Daisy Sadler and her Austin 7

Daisy Sadler's car is 80 years old and she still uses it everyday.

Her husband Josh gave it to her as a wedding present in 1973.

Daisy, from Lower Tadmarton near Banbury, boasts that the car has a top speed of 45mph, though it has no speedometer.

"It's just so perfect for the little lanes round here," she says of her trusty Austin 7, on which she makes regular running repairs to ensure it passes its MOT each year.

The car, which goes by the name Chummy Carruthers has the registration number TK3339. Daisy used to drive it in off road trials where she would often beat modern cars up the steep and muddy slopes. She has never crashed it.

The passenger seat has been removed so that she has room to fill the car with her supermarket shopping as well as the animal feed she brings home for her pigs.

In earlier days Daisy would take the car on more long distance drives but these days she is content to drive it mainly around the Banbury area.

"It has its own peculiarities," she admits of the car that shares a garage with Josh's Porsche Carrera. "The brakes are not very good."

Despite this Daisy refuses to drive a modern car.

Is Daisy's car the oldest automobile in daily use on Oxfordshire's roads? Email us and let us know!




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