09-03-2013, 01:05 AM
(27-02-2013, 08:05 PM)pwdrive Wrote: . . . I was bombing down a four-lane job, [going] down hill: apparently I was doing 90 in a Anglia 105E van!
Lawrence.
Ah, yes! The Ford 'Anglebox' 105E! I remember it well: it was my first car, with the 950 cc. engine. I regularly used to hurtle along the M4 in it, with the speedo needle banging up against the end stop! (The scale stopped at 85 m.p.h.). For maintenance purposes, couldn't ask for more. Unfortunately, the rust won the final battle when one day I put my foot on the clutch pedal and the floor gave way!
Straight out of 'Magic Moments' by Perry Como - but it didn't exactly feel like a 'magic moment' to me! 
But I loved that car. I drove it everywhere: from one end of England to the other, north-south and east-west: and apart from one fateful day, as per above, it never broke down.

Al.






