<div dir="ltr">I crossed a Ford with a Healey<div><br></div><div>See picture below: </div><div><br></div><div>|</div><div>|<br>|<br>|<br>|</div><div>}</div><div>|</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <img src="cid:ii_kxz8p5zw0" alt="BritishCarDay6-23-13152_zps8644fe22 (1).JPG" width="463" height="347"><br></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 9:34 AM Weslake1330 via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi List,<div><br></div><div>Happy New Year<br><div><br></div><div>Don't know if you have fords in the USA or elsewhere in the world. Here in the UK there are places where a small stream or brook crosses the road and for reasons most likely lost in antiquity, no bridge over or under was found necessary.</div><div><br></div><div>After a lot of wet weather a ford may be impassable to anyone with a regular car and regular amount of common sense. At other times when the ford isn't in flood but an idiot in a regular car drives through it leads to a problem! And, when the ford is in flood and an idiot drives through it becomes entertainment.</div><div><br></div><div>I forget what the UK Highway Code says about driving through a ford (except you check your brakes by lightly applying them after safely passing through it). The last time I drove through a ford I was on holiday in a rental car and took a detour to give my kids an interesting experience (never filmed it). I got out of the car checked the depth (between 4 and 8 inches from memory) and drove through, very slowly.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's a clip of what is now a famous ford in England that his its own Channel.<br><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm3vIQgBHdA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm3vIQgBHdA</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Daniel</div></div></div>
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