....you poor bastard.
Gassed Budgie,
Maaate!!!, That was a top car ----- compared to what else was available.
I even had a new one, (1962) did something like 120,000 miles in it with no serious problems, pretty unusual for pommie cars of the day, where a de-coke and valve grind at 10,000 miles was common --- including with older side valve Fords.
Re, viz, Yes, several times I actually had to get my girlfriend of the time to walk along the gutter, with a hand on the mudguard, shouting steering instructions, to find a side street to get off the road before some clown rear-ended me. I retrofitted a new fangled thing called a windscreen washer, even in the lesser fogs, I would have half an inch deep buildup of solids at the end of the wiper sweep after the 20 or so miles from Biggin Hill to home --- and we breathed that sh1t in!!
To say that the peasoupers were bad for tour health would be an understatement, they used to be an "orrible yellow/green colour --- the colour of pea soup, hence the name.
Tootle pip!!