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Remembering my grandad Sid Goffey, Captain of the Clytoneus Blue Funne line, bombed in the Irish Sea 1941 - on fire, engine room flooding. Orders "abandon ship" sees the crew off, and then "takes a walk around " to make sure no one is left, before getting into his own boat.
Driver info - then and now. My wife's A40 Driver's handbook - 58 pages including 1,000, 3,000, 6,000 and 12,000 service requirements. My Subaru Forester -14 chapters, each up to 100 pages long. Time to read and absorb?..........
So the clocks go back. So I trawl through the massive driver's handbook . You go through a complicated sequence to get the display up,and then confirm the new setting. You used to just push in a button on the clock, and wind it forward or back. Or am I just getting old?
And from the time before press kits became digital ( on CD Rom!) Michelin gave us huge bags on wheels for the Geneva Show for us poor old journos to drag all the printed material around. Someone even lent out bikes for, I seem to remember, Frankfurt Show
Press launches often used to result in gifts of luggage! Just two from Vauxhall - Carlton and Corsa
Our village street has been appalling for many years - potholes, floods in rain, surface breaking up.Suddenly they rip up the old tarmac, relay billiard table smooth asphalt,clean up the drains and repaint lines. Guess what, people now drive through 20mph faster! Duuuh
From a time when getting a scale model of an ERA racing car invoolved more than a trip to the shops!!!
Body colours and trim options on a Triumph GT6 Mark 3 in October 1970. Price wasn't bad either !!!!
Nothing new under the Sun time: What ever happened to this new wonder fuel?? Advert in the Crystal Palace Automobile Show catalogue, Feb 7th 1903
How size peceptions change. My neighbour drove up behind me in his early Elan and I immediately thought "What a tiny car". And yet I never found my Elite or my mate's Elan that we scooted around Northwood in "tiny". Comes of being an old man in a "big" Subaru Forester I suppose
Ducato camper goes into "limp home" mode in the Dorset hills. Very dangerous and stressfull on uphill sections! By chance found Barry Mowbray, Bosch Master Technician at Five Square Motors Shaftesbury diagnosed stuck throttle vale, replaced and sent us on our way. Thanks Barry
Filling up the camper van LPG tank at my local outlet today came across what must be the cheapest-to-run car ever. An early Toyota Prius taxi, with an LPG conversion on the petrol engine. The proud owner told me it had covered over 250,000 miles, still on the original battery.
So Chris Harris had warned the BBC over track dangers well before the Flintoff crash. Certainly when Tiff, Angela Rippon and myself recorded an (unseen)"old presenters" episode, I was told that getting on wet grass at one bend could lead to sliding into some steel containers
Went for a lovely walk round Coombe Hill Monument ( looking down over Chequers) but what a blot on the landscape HS2 earthworks are! They seem to be attempting to drive it straight through the middle of a chalk ridge. Utter lunacy for a 10 minutes saving
Had a wheel fitted at Wheatley Tyres. Fitter used his air gun on the nuts, then a torque wrench for final tightening, set so they could be undone with a standard car wheel spanner. Excellent! Subaru's wrench is thick and sturdy enough to stand on, some I've seen rather pathetic.
At last -have my Fiat Ducato camper back from the auto-trans specialist in Newbury. Cross fingers all well now - but we've missed so much of the summer, it broke down on the Spanish Border on May 8th, and much time spent waiting for a new Selespeed unit from Fiat
Flat tyre - nail through carcase so new tyre. First time I've had a flat in years - when was your last? Fitted the space saver ( forgotten how heavy a big wheel and tyre is!) and discovered in handbook that you are not supposed to fit the security nut to steel wheel. Who knew?
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