Great cab companies....
Wing Cars was established in 1986 as a 1 car (shabby) 1 Driver (shabbier) part time hobby offering a convenient service to the local community. Our first car was a wonderful Renault 16 TS, Kindly donated by a close friend of our founder.
The picture shown is not the original car, although in a very similar condition! The original model was in a much more acceptable shade of metallic (no less) blue.
...from little Renaults...
From the French influence we quickly moved east to join in with the high quality late 1970's Japanese luxury car. In our case a magnificent and rare Toyota Cressida Estate, which in reverse to the Renault came in green, not yellow as shown in the picture. With the increase in boot space, this enabled Wing Cars to move up to taking families to do their weekly shopping, thereby increasing their former customer base of old ladies by rather large amounts. Due to the poor choice of colour by the original purchaser, the Cressida was quickly hand-painted in a tasteful shade of black. You can see the Cressida pictured left with some of our early drivers.
...grow...
In 1987 the decision was made to return to home shores to buy the Sunderland built Nissan (formerly Datsun) Bluebird Estate. This was the beginning of greater things to come, and the Bluebird became the first of many Wing Cars vehicles to complete 250,000 miles.
Bill Gates beware.....
Now, in 2010, we have finally achieved one of our aims and added 2 Mercedes E class estate to the fleet, the next goal is to have an all Mercedes fleet by the end of 2011 so watch this space!!
Still think the Renault should have never been retired though...
Still think the Renault should have never been retired though...
