16-04-2020, 06:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 16-04-2020, 06:41 PM by AustinWood.)
Today I took the Austin into Galashiels to shop at M&S Food. An excellent outing. Put a smile on many people's faces as I passed.
While waiting in the queue the older man from the couple in front of went over to inspect the car. In the conversation that followed he told me that his first car was a Ruby Tourer (Open Road?). He'd lent it to a friend one day who returned it with a full tank of fuel. The car was not used to such extravagance and the petrol tank fell off soon afterwards.
I had a similar experience when a student in Dundee in 1967. I heard a grating noise behind and stopped to find the petrol tank being dragged along the road by the petrol pipe. Fortunately I had a spare front brake cable in the car with which I lashed it back in place. It survived till the end of term.
While waiting in the queue the older man from the couple in front of went over to inspect the car. In the conversation that followed he told me that his first car was a Ruby Tourer (Open Road?). He'd lent it to a friend one day who returned it with a full tank of fuel. The car was not used to such extravagance and the petrol tank fell off soon afterwards.
I had a similar experience when a student in Dundee in 1967. I heard a grating noise behind and stopped to find the petrol tank being dragged along the road by the petrol pipe. Fortunately I had a spare front brake cable in the car with which I lashed it back in place. It survived till the end of term.
Jim