Tales of the salesman

[Ray White]

I once took my 1930 Austin Swallow to a show where it attracted the attention of a guy who insisted that it had a wooden chassis. I tried to explain that it had a timber framed body mounted on a steel chassis...but he was having none of it. "It definitely has a wooden chassis" he insisted. Obviously concerned that I had missed something in 35 years of ownership, I asked him to show me. He pointed to the wood fillets between the wings and the bonnet. "There". he said. "it's got a wooden chassis.

I agreed with him that obviously he was right and thanked him for putting me right.

Off he went to bother someone else.