Regarding the "wave", Tom Butters wrote:
>There was always a pecking order . . .
>It was complicated and sometimes you
>didn't know if an oncoming car was
>wave-worthy until the last moment-
>one had to stay alert.
Indeed. There was also (if one paid attention to such things) a heirarchy of
possible waves . . .
>From the "All-Out" (arm overboard, hand raised and actually waving from side
to side - generally reserved for identical british cars) and the
"Temporizing" (arm remains inside the cockpit, held upright but motionless,
similar to the Moss "passing wave" - usually exchanged between 'similar'
cars) to the "Yeah, I see you" (hand remains on the steering wheel, wave
consists entirely of raising the index finger in the air - typically seen
emanating from German cars, and occasionally returned by British cars using
a different finger).
Jim Hill
Madison WI
|