26-05-2020, 10:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 26-05-2020, 07:47 PM by Bob Culver.)
Good to see it being driven in such a relaxed manner. Many screen appearances are by drivers awkward in an old car. If there is a lot on Youtube I hope I never find it. Spend too much time as is.
The cars are now too old to attract much nostalgic interest but certainly did in the 1960s when very many had owned one. Curiously many people asked me if it had a 3 bearing crank, the reputation was so bad. I took mine with me to the South Island. One of the
older stevedores was very keen to drive the car on board and quite miffed when I would not leave it with him.
For years after I ran a Jowett. A different sort of nostalgia encountered. Many ex owners were keen drivers but usually commiserated with some tale of woe, or of endless garage vists trying to get the car to idle.
(posted before the above appeared on my screen)
The cars are now too old to attract much nostalgic interest but certainly did in the 1960s when very many had owned one. Curiously many people asked me if it had a 3 bearing crank, the reputation was so bad. I took mine with me to the South Island. One of the
older stevedores was very keen to drive the car on board and quite miffed when I would not leave it with him.
For years after I ran a Jowett. A different sort of nostalgia encountered. Many ex owners were keen drivers but usually commiserated with some tale of woe, or of endless garage vists trying to get the car to idle.
(posted before the above appeared on my screen)