....but the piece de resistance of the 100E and similar was surely the wipers working (sic) on manifold vacuum, thereby ensuring they wheezed to a halt when you put your foot down to accelerate - even at 1072 Flathead Ford rates.
And when you lifted off, the wipers would thrash away like crazy. My late mother had to stop her 100E on many an occasion in the late '50s / early '60s to go looking for wiper blades which had thrown themselves over the nearside Somerset hedge!
...Wg Cdrs got Corsa level cars last time I saw them.
How simly appalling. Is that all that they're given these days, some tatty little grotbox?
I recall the time when MT at Abingdon expected people to take a supplementary driving test to drive the Montego turbo diesel. Why, they were asked - is it because it's so sodding slow? The requirement was later binned...
