San Francisco Street Sighting - 1958 Hillman Husky Series I

This week we're having a look at some cars produced by the Rootes Group in England. Rootes is known in large part for the Sunbeam Alpine sports car, but the company also built a lot of down-to-earth family cars and utility vehicles. This is a late-1950s Hillman Husky van, produced in 1958 or '59.

San Ramon Street Sighting - 1963 Hillman Minx Series IIIC

I don't pretend to know much about obscure little British cars. But this thing was funky. I'd never seen a Hillman Minx before, and haven't seen another one since. So when this 1961-63 Minx Series IIIC 1600 showed up parked on the street, I was pretty darn surprised. It hadn't been registered since 1972 and was only there for about a week during March 2007 before it disappeared forever. I'd love to find out what happened to it.