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topic: 3717Austin 8 goes hill-climbing in 1939
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posted: 9 Jul 2020 01:31

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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posted: 9 Jul 2020 02:31

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Rob Manchester
 
Manchester - United Kingdom

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Nice video Martin. Oh for the old days.

Did you drive one of these in your old days :D

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posted: 9 Jul 2020 08:23

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Jim Guthrie
 
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Who needs a Range Rover? :D:D:D

Our first car after WW2 was a 1932 Wolesley Hornet and I can remember having to stop at the top of steep climbs to get the bonnet up and let it cool down. And I do wonder how much running repairs had to be done on springs and tyres. :D:D:D

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posted: 9 Jul 2020 10:40

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Rob Manchester wrote:
Nice video Martin. Oh for the old days.

Did you drive one of these in your old days :D
:D

I remember family holidays always involved the dreaded "Porlock Hill". Although whether it was the going up or the coming down that so bothered my father, I can't remember.

Visiting the area a few years ago I couldn't see what the fuss was about, but presumably the road has been improved a lot in the last 60 years. Or the cars.

Martin.

posted: 9 Jul 2020 16:20

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Andrew Barrowman
 
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The old Rest And Be Thankful road is still there.

http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2120

posted: 9 Jul 2020 17:39

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Jim Guthrie
 
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I went checking last night and the Devil's Elbow in perth is still there in a fashion. I remember going up this in the early 1950s in the Wolesley Hornet and having to stop at the top and get the bonnet up. The Hornet didn't have a fan and depended on movement to get cool air through the radiator. So crawling up the Devil's Elbow in first gear didn't help matters. :) Looking at the pictures seventy years later I marvel that she got to the top at all. :):)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3427938/The-Devil-s-Elbow-road-revived-tourist-attraction.html

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posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:49

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Nigel Brown
 
 

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Can remember the Devil's Elbow quite well. Drove up it in 1963 with my sister's Ford Anglia (with the cut back rear window). Did it OK.

Had an interesting experience the other side, on the start of the descent from the Cairnwell to Braemar in Easter 1961. I was in the Gloucestershire Mountaineering Club's Bedford minibus, loaned for the trip by the club's president. With 10 people in, as we started down the slope, the president's daughter who was driving said "I've got no brakes". Gulp! Quick thinking, she managed to get it into 1st, and we slowly slide down the road with two passengers hauling on the handbrake, managing to come to a stop at Spittal Bridge 2 miles down the road. Turned out it hadn't been serviced for years and the brake fluid had run dry. Her father was a motor engineer ...
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posted: 11 Jul 2020 05:30

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Andrew Barrowman
 
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I had a similar experience many moons ago coming down to Grasse in my '65 VW Variant. Four of us on-board. Front and rear boots stuffed and a roof-rack with all our camping gear. The brakes (all drums) started to overheat and fade. (The brake fluid was likely starting to boil.)  I managed to slow down, pulled into a lay-by and invented some pretext for stopping while the brakes cooled down :D



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