Higham Special 'Babs'

Here's a photograph I took at the 1983 Northern Classic Car Show in the Belle Vue exhibition halls, Manchester in September 1983.

It's the Higham Special otherwise known as 'Babs', a Land Speed Record car built by John Parry-Thomas based on one of Count Louis Zborowski's 'Chitty Bang Bang' cars. Whilst making a record attempt at Pendine Sands in South Wales in March 1927 the car overturned and John Parry-Thomas was killed. His friends buried the wreckage of the car in the dunes and it was dug up in 1969 by Owen Wyn Owen who then commenced a lengthy restoration job which still hadn't been completed at the time the car was put on show in Manchester. The restoration is now finished and the car is put on display each summer in a specially built museum at Pendine as this piece in the Carmarthen Journal reports.