Like JM I grew up driving Majors and Nuffields so bought a 72 swb Series.....sight unseen.
As I drove away watched by a worried looking farmer !st thoughts were look like you know what you're doing.....look cool.....wave....
DON'T WAVE!!! DON'T TAKE HANDS OFF THE STEERING WHEEL EVER AGAIN!!.....After doing a 27 point turn in a yard the size of a football pitch I set off and began to wonder how it had 12 months Mot when the steering wheel had only a vague and extremely tenuous relationship to the wheels.
15 minutes later it became obvious that some idiot had thought it wise to build speed bumps every few yards on the motorway and narrowed the lanes so much I was taking up 2 just travelling in a straight line but at least I had a shot at getting within walking distance of home without going through the trauma of changing gear again.
It might have occured to me to see how fast I was going once or twice but I doubted my blurred vision could have read the speedo anyway and taking my eyes of the road ahead was clearly suicidal......especially with the sudden and inexplicable number of lorries careering past me at what must have been 100 mph.
Arriving home an hour later with what, remarkably, still seemed to be a complete Landy....covered in sweat, aching all over, a nervous twitch and a stupid grin.....my last thought of the journey was...
OoooooohYES!