Fastest Jogle

[Dave Wortley]

In the results for the ‘72 Jogle which Tony Griffiths posted, he didn’t mention that he had the engine fail in his type 65 somewhere en route and had a tow home to the Peak district, changed the engine overnight (?) with quite a lash-up by all accounts and drove back to where he had broken down. He was following us for a while and when we stopped for a chat we couldn’t work out how he had got behind us until he explained. We did a total of 1953 miles in the chummy, stopping in Bristol, Manchester and Cumbernauld as we drove to the start in Land’s End and then back home to Sheffield from John O’ Groats. No breakdowns, only a malfunctioning screen wiper, a lost wallet in Bristol and the usual numb backside.
Coming downhill on a main road somewhere south of J o G the chummy struggled against a headwind for quite a few miles and would only proceed in a low gear.