03-09-2019, 12:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-09-2019, 12:59 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
(03-09-2019, 03:16 AM)Bob Culver Wrote: Owners of modern cars (made in the last 40 years) have been denied the close company of the front seat passenger. Few cars match the intimacy of Seven directly (reaching for the choke in an RP could get your face slapped, and the handbrake in all) but bench seats without the enormous console, with column change, and no seat belts encouraged closeness. It was common to follow cars with two occupying little more than the driver's seat.
Alan Clark (he of the political diaries fame) was prosecuted when at university for driving with a girl on his lap. She was steering and he operating the foot pedals and gear lever. One leaves the rest to one's imagination. Recounted in his book "Backfire" - an interesting read.