Re: Cars you don't see many of anymore
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Back in the early 70's one of my friends mum had a Brougham, same colour, but I don't remember a vinyl roof?
Anyway, she was always complaining about poor economy, we all just said it's a V8, pretty normal.
One day she mentioned that she had filled up again and she had recorded the mileage, I can't remember what it was, but it shocked us at the time.
So began the quest to find where the fuel was going. We did everything we could think of under the bonnet, timing, spark, etc, pulled the carby apart, new filters, even changed the fan belts - all to no avail.
So I wondered if it was how she drove - she was a bit of a ditz...
She was willing to demonstrate, so in we get.
Reversed out the driveway, stopped to put her seatbelt on, put it in drive, then grabbed her handbag and hung in on the gear lever - column shift auto remember - yep, straight into low gear. She drove everywhere in low. Confirmed the ditzy completely. She had recently done a trip Bundaberg to Brissy and back, all in low gear.....
Well after a discussion on where to put her handbag, all went back to normal.
TBH, my friend was pretty clueless as well, he was often a front seat passenger with his mum???
Cheers,
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