Driving In My Car, UK, 1982

Format: 7″
Release date: 16/7/1982
Label: Stiff
Catalogue No.: BUY 153
Secondary Cat. No.: –
Barcode: none
Chart Position: 4
Release notes: –

Tracks:
Driving In My Car
Animal Farm (Tomorrow’s Dream Warp Mix)

Spent just 8 weeks in the top 75, but three of those at no.4 in July/August 1982.
Certified Silver (200,000) in July 1982.

‘Driving In My Car’ master page

Sleeve

Variant 1

Matt paper picture sleeve, side opening wide curve cut-out

Variant 2

Fold-out poster sleeve
These are slightly taller than the standard sleeve and as a result are often damaged / creased at the top. They are fairly common.

Behind the glued flap is a car-themed montage – “Inside Madness”

Labels

Variant 1

Label profile: 44mm lip, 32mm ring

Label profile: 44mm lip, 38mm hole

Lacquer cut by Denis ‘Bilbo’ Blackham at Tape One, London W1. Pressed by CBS, Aston Clinton

Runouts – any combination of A1, A2 and B1, B2:

A-Side: BUY·153-A1 BILBO.TAPE ONE ON YOUR BIKE SUNSHINE! / BUY-153-A2 BILBO.TAPE ONE ON YOUR BIKE SUNSHINE!
B-Side: BUY-153-B1 BILBO.TAPEONE THIS ARE HEAVY T.D. SIDE / BUY-153-B2 BILBO.TAPEONE THIS ARE HEAVY T.D. SIDE.

Variant 2

Label profile: slope from 57mm to 43mm, 25mm ring

Lacquer cut by Denis ‘Bilbo’ Blackham at Tape One, London W1. Pressed by CBS, Aston Clinton

Runouts:

A-Side: BUY-153-A2 BILBO.TAPEONE ON YOUR BIKE SUNSHINE! D / B-Side: BUY-153-B2 BILBO.TAPEONE THIS ARE HEAVY T.D. SIDE. E

Variant 3

Label profile: 44mm lip, 32mm ring

Same as CBS pressing but pressed by WEA, West Drayton

My copy has B-Side labels on both sides

Runouts:

A-Side: BUY-153-A2 W-5 BILBO.TAPE ONE ON YOUR BIKE SUNSHINE! F / B-Side: BUY-153-B1 W-5 F BILBO.TAPEONE THIS ARE HEAVY T.D. SIDE

Variant 4

Label profile: slope from 55mm to 44mm, 32mm ring. No gripper rings

Same as CBS pressing but pressed by Lyntone, Holloway, London N19

Runouts:

A-Side: BUY-153-A1 F BILBO TAPE ONE ON YOUR BIKE SUNSHINE! A LYN 11945 / B-Side: BUY-153-B1 BILBO.TAPE ONE THIS ARE HEAVY T.D. SIDE A LYN 11946