06-12-2019, 11:39 AM
(06-12-2019, 09:34 AM)Dave Wortley Wrote: Tony,I do vaguely remember that - must have been the day after a VSCC driving test or trial - or perhaps I've just been rather neglectful. Were you with us on that drive through Ripley, I think it was when Mike Hobday lost a wheel - and the first I knew about it was when it overtook me and bounced off a factory wall?
I seem to remember you turning up at our house many years ago without the full complement of wheel studs on your chummy ie just the one!
Cheers,
Dave.
That was only on the one wheel of course. The other wheels had the full complement.
I do recall an occasion, when a student, travelling as a passenger in a £10 Austin from the 1950s. We were following an articulated lorry when its rear offside pair of wheels came off, rolled alongside the truck for a few moments and then ran dead straight down the offside of the road. Approaching at speed in the opposite direction was a Mini and it looked as though it was going to be flattened. However, at the last moment, the wheels swerved right and smashed though a thick hawthorn hedge and came to rest in a field. Presumably, the mini driver stopped to change his underpants, but the lorry carried on, oblivious to what had happened - though we did eventually manage to scrape by and flag him down.