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What was your first car ??
To start everyone off mine was a really bad "L" reg Hillman Avenger which was written off in a head on pre seat belts law , ouch .......
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Because my dad didn't want me to have a motorbike he bought me a twenty year old 1933 Morris Minor which had cable brakes that you could adjust whilst moving by lifting a hatch beneath the driver's feet and tightening a wing nut !
It also had a wooden metal-covered body and one night I nearly got nicked by telling a copper that the reason the doors were saging was due to dry rot ! (True !)
Now you may not believe this but late one night in 1954 I was nearing Cobham in Surrey when I was overtaken by a familiar looking wire wheel. Yes, it was mine ! Wheels on that model were held on by three bolts which seemed to have sheared. The car was so square in shape that it remained upright until I reached 5 mph before flopping to one side. I retrieved the offending wheel from the ditch and got it fixed back on again next day. A night to remember.
Now beat that one.
It also had a wooden metal-covered body and one night I nearly got nicked by telling a copper that the reason the doors were saging was due to dry rot ! (True !)
Now you may not believe this but late one night in 1954 I was nearing Cobham in Surrey when I was overtaken by a familiar looking wire wheel. Yes, it was mine ! Wheels on that model were held on by three bolts which seemed to have sheared. The car was so square in shape that it remained upright until I reached 5 mph before flopping to one side. I retrieved the offending wheel from the ditch and got it fixed back on again next day. A night to remember.
Now beat that one.
A Reliant three-wheeler. I was sixteen.In those days (1963) that Reliant car was counted as a motorcycle and could be driven on a motorcycle licence.The 'logic' was that it was a tricycle just as a motorbike with a sidecar was. And you could have that licence at sixteen even though this vehicle's engine was something like 875 cc. At the time there had been a strange rule that the car had to have its reverse gear blanked off, so you couldn't engage reverse, if you were to drive it on a motorbike licence, but I think that rule about reverse was changed.
PS for Derekpara: In cars of the 1930s (and for a couple of decades on) wheel loss like you described was not very unusual. My father, a motor dealer, once bought a Rover which was overtaken by its rear wheel when he was driving it. He repaired that. Next time he was out in it, he suddenly felt no friction in the steering wheel. In the course of use the wheel had gradually unscrewed itself from the steering column and so was 'turning' nothing but thin air.He was so surprised that he calmly screwed it back by hand without stopping, only to break out in a cold sweat later when he realised what could have happened!
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