Tag: Peter

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  Peter’s Blog – Not your average transport

  Iran in 1967 seemed both chaotic and hairy in terms of traffic.  Unlike India, drivers seemed intent on forceful progress regardless of fellow road users, neither using a mirror or signalling and constantly attempting to push through tiny gaps.  The accident rate then was dreadful and is still one of the three highest in the…

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  Peter’s Blog – Something new

  I part exchanged the Mini after a long look at available small cars. I had to use the car for work, I couldn’t afford a bigger car but it had to be able to do long journeys in reasonable comfort. In the 60’s even the modest journeys could be very slow; for example my run…

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  Peter’s Blog – The humble MINI

  My Lanchester 10 needed work and I looked for something modern, more exciting, even fashionable.  At that time, 1965, the Mini was driven by pop stars, had won the Monte Carlo rally in 1964 and 1965, and drove like nothing else available near that price.  I bought a year old car in red from the…

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  Peter’s Blog – On two wheels

  My first motorbike, the BSA 250cc, did sterling work for several years – getting to work of course, but since I lived mostly on farms it was my only way of going out in the evening, of reaching local towns for some night life.  But once I went to college in Devon I swopped it…

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  Peter’s Blog – Good ol’ Landie

  Though I learned to drive in it, I have no nostalgic fondness for the farm Land Rover – it was noisy, uncomfortable and not very reliable.  I was much more taken with a relative’s Ford V8 Pilot; a big cruiser with an American V8 and the torque to go with it.  An old fashioned car then,…

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  Peter’s Blog – On the farm

  Up to the age of 10 my main experience of four wheels was on a tractor – a David Brown with a seat wide enough for two, provided one was a child, spending quality time on the tractor or the trailer behind.  We bumped along, often with a trailer of fodder, in some comfort by…