In article <GO8W5Z00.B1H@tianguo.rave.ac.uk>, James Carruthers
<j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk> writes
>Other than that I don't get much. What I am dissapointed in is in the 2 1/2
>months Ive had it I havent seen a single other Spitfire to flash my lights
>at - not one. Ive seen a Herald - and the guy looked at me in a funny way
>when I gave him a grin - he was stopped right next to me in traffic going
>the other way. A guy in a Midget 1500 flashed his lights and waved at me -
>and I waved back and turned the wipers on and washed the screen
>simultaneously - I had only had the car a week and was getting used to the
>controls. But no Spitfire. Am I the only person in either Bromley or
>Chingford who has a Spitfire and actually drives the thing? Maybe summer
>will be better.....
Summer is a *lot* better. I live about fifty miles north of you, and
since September I haven't seen a single old Triumph or MG on the roads
(except the yellow T-reg 1500 that was parked, with the top down,
outside Halfords earlier this week). I bought my car in February, and
spent the first three or four months wondering where all the others
were. Come July I was passing a couple of classic sports cars every
fifteen minutes on the way to work (MGBs by the bucket-load, Spits,
GT6s, TR3s, TR4s, Austin-Healey Sprites...). There are very few of us
mad enough to use Spitfires as year-round drivers - although I have to
say that with new transmission tunnel cover and a hard-top, there don't
seem to be too many drawbacks. Last February the car only had a
soft-top, which was held together with Gaffer Tape, and an original,
cardboard transmission tunnel, that had mostly disintegrated. Now that
made for some miserable drives...
ATB
--
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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