jcochrane wrote:TripleS wrote:BTW, was it still a pink slip five years after I took my test?
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Best wishes all,
Dave.
Good grief....can't remember the colour...you know I'm getting senile but I do remember you got a nice driving licence with a stiff red cover.
Nothing about majors and minors but you did have to drive using hand signals....even on a cold day with the rain lashing down. Ah, such happy memories.
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Dave, do you remember those semaphore signals, you remember the ones where you had to thump the door pillar as you drove in order to make them flip out.
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Yes, I do remember them. I think they were called Trafficators - or something like that. Mind you, they were sometimes called other things too, when the damned things stuck either up or down.
I never owned a car with them fitted, but in the family there was a 1953 Lanchester 14 model that had them, and I drove that quite a bit.
Novel transmission on that car - Wilson pre-selector system - a three pedal job with a four speed epicyclic gearbox and a fluid flywheel. It behaved quite nicely in stop-start low speed traffic, but I didn't like it otherwise.
....and 61 bhp in a car weighing more than 1.5 tons wasn't too exciting either.
Best wishes all,
Dave.