What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Graham Barker]

I made an early morning trip across the Auckland Harbour Bridge before the traffic built-up to test the speed of my Ruby  climbing the bridge. I have wanted to cross it to bring my Ruby to vintage Austin events organised by the North Shore branch of the Vintage Austin Register, but was concerned that it might be a third gear slope and that I would be harassed by impatient moderns. It doesn't seem very steep in the photo, but it is an 8.3 % gradient. 
Anyway the Ruby, loaded with heavy toolkits, etc to simulate the weight of a passenger, made it in top gear at 33 mph each way. There was a moderate cross-wind, so no wind advantage either way. This shouldn't irritate the moderns too much.