Saturday, May 19, 2012

Not sure exactly what this is

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  1. You mean to tell me, I too could have had headlights like this? I wish I hadn't sold the car now. My sons might even have been prepared to let me drive them all the way to school.

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    1. You were lucky to have found a buyer for that car. :)

      No, you couldn't have had that many headlights without a much tougher battery than you probably had. Wait. The alternator was hand-cranked. The crank was down by the foot pedals. And I don't mean brake and clutch pedals. :)

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    2. That looks like a Welsh beach to me. Is that the one they used to use for speed cars in the 20's I wonder?

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    3. You have no idea how tough my battery can be, Max.

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    4. @Adullamite - only you remember the 20s. I was too shocked to see they were allowed to desecrate a beach with cars to guess the location.

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  2. I never owned a 2CV, but I've driven a few, and laughed a lot whilst doing so. The correct technique, according to my Belgian friend, Gerard, is to slam the go pedal to the floor and never ease-up on the right foot. When faced with rough roads, ploughed fields, snow, floods etc.... Just keep that foot down. Hear that tiny engine scream.

    However, I did have a Renault 4, and a Renault 6, both of them a bit bigger, and a bit tougher than the tin snail, but otherwise similar in craziness and nutty suspension and gearchange.

    Great cars to own and drive, and like a magic carpet over rough roads.

    Adullamite? Pendine Sands?

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  3. Soub, Somewhere in the west country or Wales they had such sand.

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