Three Men in Dean’s Consul

If you’ve spent any time around the UK classic scene, you’ll know Junk & Disorderly: Henry Cole, Allen Millyard and Guy “Skid” Willison, working their way through Britain’s sheds, auctions and autojumbles in search of machinery worth saving. Between them they’ve bought, stripped, rebuilt and moved on more old metal than most of us will ever stand next to.

In 2025 they brought the cameras to the classic car show at Newbury Showground, set up a small market stall, and got on with what they do — buying and selling the proper paraphernalia of the scene: petrol cans, jerry cans, the bits and pieces every garage swears it needs. Dean’s 1955 Ford Consul Mk1 was parked directly behind the stall. Which meant that every time the cameras rolled, there it was — black paint, deep shine, hood down, photobombing a television programme with considerable dignity.

Between takes, the three of them wandered over for a chat with Dean and his friend Martin. Then they climbed in. Henry first — flat cap, glasses, straight into the driver’s seat, hands on the wheel like he was already halfway to an auction. Then Allen Millyard, the man who builds engines the factories never dared, took his turn at the wheel. Guy rode shotgun in the bucket hat. Dean stood by and let them get on with it, which is roughly the correct procedure when three blokes who’ve handled half of Britain’s motoring history want a sit in your car.

The episode duly went out on ITV — the Consul in the background throughout, plus a few cuts of the car on its own. Not bad for a day out in Berkshire.