What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Tony Griffiths]

Many decades ago, travelling to London from Sheffield with fellow students in a well-worn, bald-tyred Austin A40 bought for £5, we had gone as far as Workshop and were following an ancient articulated lorry along a straight, wide road. To our surprise, a load crack heralded the departure of the trailer’s pair of nearside wheels, which then proceeded to roll randomly across the road from side to side - quite a mesmerising sight. However, after a few seconds the wheels took it upon themselves to stabilise and take permanently to the right-hand lane, this also being occupied by a Mini - but coming in the opposite direction at speed. ‘Ah, ah', we all though, 'This is it. One big accident coming up’.  However, at the very last moment - and just before striking the Mini - the wheels veered sharp right and crashed through a substantial hedge into a field. The problem now was to overtake the lorry and inform the (quite oblivious) driver as to what had happened. Eventually, on a long downhill stretch the asthmatic Austin managed to get by and we flagged him down.

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Very well done. One more saved and back on the road.

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Very well done. One more saved and back on the road.