19-11-2021, 06:34 PM
(19-11-2021, 04:27 PM)Bob Culver Wrote: What Tony can do is both impressive and disconcerting.
About the heating, when I was young, every few weekends we tootled 60 miles to visit grandparents. To exit from Wellington inolves a steady climb of about a mile mostly in 2nd. Like most RPs the rubber cover over the gearbox had long before dissolved so we were always snug. in 1957 the Seven was supplanted by a 1952 Minx, without heater (expensive accessory). First thing we noticed was how miserably cold it was.
(Alongside the road on the climb was a partly above ground large stormwater pipe. Having observed it creep by on so many occassions I could draw it in detail today. Buses and trucks were slower still although very few of the latter esp on weekends.)
The Ford was an incredibly good buy. it is astonishing any Sevens sold at all. Ford was tainted with the stigma of the Model T. (My grandmothers neighbour ownd a 'new 1953 ish Ford Mainline or such station wagon, we the RP. My garndmother regarded the neighbours car as a mere Ford, and was quite proud we had an Austin, worth about 1/15).
Apparently the Ford Y steered poorly and had poor brakes...but I dunno what standard was used....
How interesting. My wife had the same attitude when I mentioned we might buy a Ford. "Four wheels and a board!" came the response. She probably inherited this from her father, a transport manager responsible for running a very large fleet of assorted vehicles.