Learning to Drive in the 1960s

[peter scott]

On one occasion I was driving far too fast down a Kent country lane and encountered another young fool doing exactly the same thing in the opposite direction.
Steve

Steve,

Don't feel too alone in your youthful foolishness. When we bought our first flat we needed a local authority improvement grant and a condition of this was that we had to remove the kitchen range that we wanted to keep.

   

We took it out and stored it at my parents' house but subsequently we decided to move it to our next property and strapped it onto the roof rack on our 1100. All was well until we got stuck behind a rather slow moving vehicle so I over took it and, out of sight out of mind, I then fleetingly forgot about the range and negotiated a sharp left hand bend a little too fast and with much embarrassment then proceeded to sweep the pieces off the road as the slow moving vehicle overtook us.

Peter