At around the same time, Sean Connery is in a studio in West London, touching the shoulder of gold-painted actress Shirley Eaton – which helps the third Bond film, Goldfinger, to rake in a good £125 million worldwide. Meanwhile, America strikes back with the Ford Mustang and Ford GT prototype, two of the best-loved cars of the 20th Century. Discover the other seminal classics that saw the light of day 50 years ago in our (hypothetical) 1964 Classic Driver Motor Show.
It's 1964
It’s February 1964 and England is poised for world domination – in terms of pop culture, anyway. John, Paul, George and Ringo arrive in New York and America discovers Beatlemania… along with the Liverpudlian interview style. “How did you find America?” – “We went to Greenland and made a left turn”…