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Dean's Classic Cars

British motoring, kept alive

Shows, stories and the garments to wear to them.

Dean's black 1955 Ford Consul Mk1 convertible, XX 1955, roof down
Dean's 1955 Ford Consul, XX 1955

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Dean's Classic Cars

Fifty years of British motoring.

Five decades of British metal, the stories behind them, and designs for the folk who still turn out every weekend.

Henry Cole of Junk & Disorderly sitting in the driver's seat of Dean's black 1955 Ford Consul Mk1 convertible at the Newbury classic car show

Stories

Three Men in Dean’s Consul

The Junk & Disorderly crew found the 1955 Ford Consul at Newbury and, one by one, climbed in.

Clay model of Dean standing tall and smiling, in a black polo shirt with the crest on the chest and his reading glasses on a cord

The man with the trophies

Meet Dean

If you’ve done the UK show circuit for any length of time, you’ve probably met Dean, usually with a cloth in one hand, handing out the trophies, and happy to talk for an hour about a car that isn’t even his.

Selling cars was the day job: his own car sales first, then his own used car dealerships, Just Small Cars of Surrey and later Just Small Cars of Windsor, with short spells at main dealers such as Vauxhall and Honda.

He runs a rare black 1955 Ford Consul drophead and a red Jaguar XJS, both kept to the standard he holds everyone else’s to: properly. He’ll tell you that the joy of it was never the cars on their own. It was the physical graft, the early starts, and the people you only ever meet in a field at dawn with a bacon sandwich going cold on the bonnet.

For most of his life this was the hobby. Now Dean’s making it the work: somewhere to gather the cars, the shows and the people he’s spent decades among, and to share it properly.

Pull up a chair. The kettle’s on.

Five Decades of British Motoring

From post-war optimism to rally-bred heroes. Each decade, a different chapter.

The Collection

Designs made for people who know their stuff. Not to shout, just to signal. Forty-one classics from five decades, in the Flag Series, Neon Car Meets and Racing Patches lines, printed on hoodies, sweatshirts and tees.

Dean valeting his 1955 Ford Consul Convertible Mk1