Thread: Good News Story - 'giving it a red hot go '

I reckon he's a show. When I was a tacker my Mum had a "Baby" Austin and would drive my sister and I to school. The brakes were always a bit dodgy so, when nearing our school, Mum would use the gears to slow down as much as possible and sis and I would hit the ground running. Wouldn't the P&*C love that today

Steve

Originally Posted by Saitch

I reckon he's a show. When I was a tacker my Mum had a "Baby" Austin and would drive my sister and I to school. The brakes were always a bit dodgy so, when nearing our school, Mum would use the gears to slow down as much as possible and sis and I would hit the ground running. Wouldn't the P&*C love that today

Steve

That's the way it should be , and for pick ups slow down to first and let them leap in . A bit of exercise wouldn't go amiss with some of these waddlers.

My Dad's first car was an Austin 7, prior to that he owned Velocettes and Norton bikes. In the RN, sailors could get permission to take their motorcycles on board. Dad got permission to take the Baby Austin, on the proviso that loading and unloading was entirely his responsibility, not a problem with a ship-load of pedestrian seamen.
At a port, somewhere in SE Asia, he and five shipmates unloaded the sub-500kg car by hand, prior to playing tourists, as sailors do eh Bob?.
Upon their return, six hours later, the tide had risen some fifteen feet, making loading rather tricky. A recce around the wharf turned up a number of forty-four gallon drums and wooden planks, which were appropriated. Many of the lower ranks lent assistance while the rest of the ship's compliment, from the Old Man down, watched the tiny car climb the height of four drums, on skinny wooden ramps.
Imagine doing that these days.