What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Tony Griffiths]

Yes Simon, I do want to drive it again!  Mostly it was enjoyable. Engine seems to like to rev, which isn't my usual driving style, but it can be. Steering is wonderfully quirky, and I've always enjoyed driving with no brakes, so all is good. Gear ratios seem odd. Anything less than 32 mph and it needs 3rd gear. Setting off from rest on the level and first gear seems too low, but second seems too high. But yes it's good and the human mind soon adapts to these things.

Very well done - that must have been a most interesting experience. Many cars of the 1930s with a 4-speed 'box had a very low first gear; it saved the previous situation, with a 3-speed 'box, of having to go up very steep hills in reverse - and I'm not kidding!