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<blockquote data-quote="Crisbe" data-source="post: 637070" data-attributes="member: 327196"><p>My first car was an Austin A30. That was back in the days before the government got greedy with the fuel tax and petrol cost 3 shillings and 6 pence a gallon. ( That is 17.5pence in today's money, for 4.5 litres of leaded petrol. Just under 3p per litre.)</p><p></p><p>I was an apprentice electrician at the time and couldn't afford to pay anyone to do any repairs or servicing, so I had to learn to do it all myself. Which is how I got a lot of my basic engineering knowledge. I used to do my own engine rebuilds and repairs. I had 50 thousandths of an inch skimmed off the cylinder head to increase the compression ratio and that thing would go up the side of a house in second gear!</p><p></p><p>I remember one holiday I had in Devon, I was with a girlfriend and we were staying in a B&B in one resort and driving out and about sightseeing each day. One day we went to Lynmouth which has very steep roads in and out. (1 in 2.5 gradients)</p><p></p><p>On the way out of Lynmouth we were coming up the hill in second gear and going well. Then, a Morris Traveller Estate car (the one with the wooden rails on the side) stalled on the road about 100 yards in front of us (They were yards in those days, not metres) and started to roll backwards down the hill towards us. I had no option but to pull on to the wrong side of the road, which was only two lanes wide, and try to go around it. Just as I got alongside, the guy driving it managed to restart it and started to go uphill again, with us alongside him! In first gear he had as much speed as I did in second gear, so I couldn't finish going past him, and, because we were frightened that someone might come round the corner, going downhill, on the side of the road we were now occupying, I had no choice but to back of and drop in behind him. </p><p></p><p>All the way up the rest of the hill I was praying that he would not stall again. it took ages to get the marks off my underpants that evening! Happy days!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crisbe, post: 637070, member: 327196"] My first car was an Austin A30. That was back in the days before the government got greedy with the fuel tax and petrol cost 3 shillings and 6 pence a gallon. ( That is 17.5pence in today's money, for 4.5 litres of leaded petrol. Just under 3p per litre.) I was an apprentice electrician at the time and couldn't afford to pay anyone to do any repairs or servicing, so I had to learn to do it all myself. Which is how I got a lot of my basic engineering knowledge. I used to do my own engine rebuilds and repairs. I had 50 thousandths of an inch skimmed off the cylinder head to increase the compression ratio and that thing would go up the side of a house in second gear! I remember one holiday I had in Devon, I was with a girlfriend and we were staying in a B&B in one resort and driving out and about sightseeing each day. One day we went to Lynmouth which has very steep roads in and out. (1 in 2.5 gradients) On the way out of Lynmouth we were coming up the hill in second gear and going well. Then, a Morris Traveller Estate car (the one with the wooden rails on the side) stalled on the road about 100 yards in front of us (They were yards in those days, not metres) and started to roll backwards down the hill towards us. I had no option but to pull on to the wrong side of the road, which was only two lanes wide, and try to go around it. Just as I got alongside, the guy driving it managed to restart it and started to go uphill again, with us alongside him! In first gear he had as much speed as I did in second gear, so I couldn't finish going past him, and, because we were frightened that someone might come round the corner, going downhill, on the side of the road we were now occupying, I had no choice but to back of and drop in behind him. All the way up the rest of the hill I was praying that he would not stall again. it took ages to get the marks off my underpants that evening! Happy days! [/QUOTE]
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