Not surprising, try aquaplaning with one front wheeleven more of a death trap than a 2CV plus being fibreglass, a molotov cocktail on wheels
Fibreglass, mmhhh there's an idea for some minimalist knife scales
Jack Black
Cambertree
@Will Power I remember all of those cars with the exception of the orange three wheeler. We have been long time fans of British TV series over the last forty years. I had a buddy that bought one of those 3 wheeled USPS Mail vehicles, he towed me behind his VW Microbus at around 50 MPH, I was screaming at him the entire seventeen miles back to his house.
I still see them from time to time here Will, saw one just the other day in fact
I haven't seen one of these for a while!
(If not, here's a link to the video.)
Cambertree
it amazes me how some cars could be so far ahead of their time in the depths of the depression. My father in law wanted a vintage Rolls or Bentley so bad he could taste it, he scoured Hemmings for years never finding anything remotely reasonable.
Cambertree
lovely vintage cars.
Thank you for posting pictures of your trip Barrett . I have enjoyed them very much .Since the 8-hour time difference after returning from England has me awake a few hours before I have any need to be, I figured I would post some photos from the rest of our trip.
On Wednesday, we drove over to Stonehenge.
We had lunch in Salisbury, and stopped in a couple antique shops (which sadly did not turn up any interesting old knives), then we drove down to the coast to walk along the beach at Durdle Door.
I thought that the wet pebbles made for a nice knife-photo backdrop; you just have to make sure you get your photo before the waves make it back up to those same rocks again!
Thursday and Friday we mostly stayed around Bath, and enjoyed getting to spend time with my brother, sister-in-law and niece. On Thursday evening we left the kids with a babysitter and headed down a pub called The Raven in Bath. The beer was good, and the pie was excellent!
On Saturday we drove to the city of Wells, where they were having a market day. If you've seen the movie Hot Fuzz (which was filmed in Wells), you might recognize the market square and the Church of St. Cuthbert.
Wells Cathedral is quite impressive.
Saturday evening we had a picnic in Royal Victoria Park in Bath, where we got to watch some hot air balloons taking off.
Sunday, our last full day in England, was fairly uneventful, mostly spent relaxing around the house and packing. We left my brother's place early Monday morning to head for the airport, and made it home just over 24 hours later. It was a long day.
We had a fantastic trip, and it was great to be able to spend so much time with my brother and his family in their new home. We were in England for a total of 9 days, and it went by in a flash! The tentative plan is go back for Christmas next year, something I'm definitely looking forward to.
I've heard that disabled people in Britain used to have three wheeled cars called Invalid Carriages. Here the disabled got three wheeled mopeds, you had to be hardy and plenty agile to use one!!
I have a mate from Dundalk, but (strangely) he's never mentioned them!
Anyone over about 5ft 4" basically had their knees next to their ears, and had to put a foot on the dashboard to change gear! Of course we also have to show the Sinclair C5! 
Certainly some interesting old cars, gents!
Although I didn't see anything quite as interesting as those, I did enjoy the variety of different cars that I saw while we were in England this past week. I enjoyed seeing the different makes that we don't have in the US, as well the general smallness of the majority of cars on the road (which I completely understood and appreciated once I had driven a bit myself!). After a couple days, I started seeing cars that would be considered average-sized or even a bit small in the States and thinking, "What a preposterous choice! How could you even get around in that thing?"
Jack, have you seen the segment from Top Gear where Clarkson drives a Reliant Robin around Sheffield? It's one of my favorites.
Cars have actually got bigger here in the past couple of decades! 
) Yes, definitely.
There's a Bentley in the same collection as that 1936 Benz, you might be interested to see then, JB.
Also one of only three existing 1903 Peugeot, Type 56s (the other two are in the Peugeot Museum, and the National Automobile Museum in France).
I might as well share a few other pics from that collection - I know there's a few of you guys who dig classic automobiles.
1896 Benz Velo:
Since the 8-hour time difference after returning from England has me awake a few hours before I have any need to be, I figured I would post some photos from the rest of our trip.
On Wednesday, we drove over to Stonehenge.
We had lunch in Salisbury, and stopped in a couple antique shops (which sadly did not turn up any interesting old knives), then we drove down to the coast to walk along the beach at Durdle Door.
I thought that the wet pebbles made for a nice knife-photo backdrop; you just have to make sure you get your photo before the waves make it back up to those same rocks again!
Thursday and Friday we mostly stayed around Bath, and enjoyed getting to spend time with my brother, sister-in-law and niece. On Thursday evening we left the kids with a babysitter and headed down a pub called The Raven in Bath. The beer was good, and the pie was excellent!
On Saturday we drove to the city of Wells, where they were having a market day. If you've seen the movie Hot Fuzz (which was filmed in Wells), you might recognize the market square and the Church of St. Cuthbert.
I've been thinking about that pie all week! By coincidence I was once in The Raven in Sheffield when Phil Oakey (from the video) came in, having just had his hair cut in that daft style in had in early days of The Human League!
Jack Black
Sir Clive evidently like sub compacts, I remember the ZX80 computer (a term I use loosely).
+1
Jack Black
those were the "corner"-years! 
Do you still see those odd little one-person cars teenagers used to be able to drive in France JP? And did you ever own a Veloselex?
There's also an E-solex!
I used to love the look of them, and remember the Parisian streets being full of them on my first visit, in the 1970's. By coincidence, a small garage in Sheffield imported both the machines, and the parts, but they were classed as a motorbike here, and so weren't popular because they attracted the same tax, insurance, and helmet laws as (then) a 250cc bike. When I lived in the north of France in 1991, I didn't see any Solex, but nobody could tell me why they disappeared.
