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Pictured: National Motor Museum's Ben Wanklyn cleans Mr Toad's car in the museum grounds.<br />
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Mr Toad's car from Wind in the Willows has gone on display after a painstaking restoration following years of neglect.<br />
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The vehicle was made for the 1996 film adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic 1908 children's book starring Terry Jones as the obsessive amphibian.<br />
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The car, which appears to be from the Edwardian era, was actually built in 1995 at Shepperton Studios for the film.<br />
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Following the film's release, it was transported to America, where it spent many years hanging from the ceiling of a Florida restaurant.<br />
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It was brought back to Britain last year in a dilapidated state and has been restored at the National Motor Museum workshop in Beaulieu, Hants, where visitors can see it driven around the grounds.

BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)
Pic: MaxWillcock/BNPS

Pictured: National Motor Museum's Ben Wanklyn cleans Mr Toad's car in the museum grounds.

Mr Toad's car from Wind in the Willows has gone on display after a painstaking restoration following years of neglect.

The vehicle was made for the 1996 film adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic 1908 children's book starring Terry Jones as the obsessive amphibian.

The car, which appears to be from the Edwardian era, was actually built in 1995 at Shepperton Studios for the film.

Following the film's release, it was transported to America, where it spent many years hanging from the ceiling of a Florida restaurant.

It was brought back to Britain last year in a dilapidated state and has been restored at the National Motor Museum workshop in Beaulieu, Hants, where visitors can see it driven around the grounds.