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How they used to write a car review

  • 09-08-2010 12:35pm
    #1
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭


    I spotted this and thought others would enjoy.

    In short it involved a car review of the 1969 Austin Maxi in Dublin from a British journalist who developed a taste for Guinness

    http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Forum-Landing/Forum-Categories/Topic/?&topic-id=6269

    Such gems as this are included
    There´s a fifth gear but I think nobody needs this. Why stop at five, I ask. Why not six or even seven? Madness. A fifth gear is simply somthing extra to break and, as it is, the bolshie communists at Longbridge find four cogs hard enough to glue together. Five is asking too much.


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  • #2
    Joe 90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 916 ✭✭✭Joe 90


    And once upon a time British journalists took the fast cars to Ireland to enjoy the lack of a national speed limit. Would have been for a fairly short time though, they got the 70mph motorway limit in about 1967 and Ireland got the 55mph limit in either 68 or 69. I do rememeber getting pulled by a Guard the first day of the 55 limit, no summons though.
    The thing a lot of people did not realise about the UK limit was that it was a motorway limit, not a national limit so you could still make serious headway legaly as long as you did so off the motorway.


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