Play it again, Roy! The Bryncrug man with a passion for music and motors
Roy Crawford is regularly seen out and about in Bryncrug and Tywyn at the wheel of his distinctive white 'cabin car' motorised buggy. It's his main mode of transport these days, since a stroke affected his eyesight and he had to give up his driving licence a few years ago. He's resigned to it, and remains cheerful, but he dearly misses driving out in one of the classic cars he's collected over the years. He beams with pride as he carefully pulls back a sheet in his garage to reveal a beautiful, creamy-white 1951 MG TD that he built himself. Roy - now 88 - bought the MG as a "bag of bits" after it had been dismantled for scrap, but then discovered half the pieces didn't belong to the car at all, so had to scour the UK for the missing parts. "It took me a long time to track them down, but I did it eventually," he recalls. "I used to take the car to shows and I won lots of prizes with it." Roy with his beloved MG TD Roy didn't onl...
