> > From: "John Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/10/10 Fri AM 12:05:37 GMT > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: OT - Why the LHC broke. > > Hey Frank, don't knock the Victor! I learnt to drive on one of those, a > driving school car. My Dad had a Vauxhall Velox at the time, so there was > some advantage in both cars having the same peculiarities (like > steering-column shift). The Velox later died when the rear spring came > through the floor pan, butting up against the rear seat squab, and causing > my grandmother to remark, "Ted, this car's not very comfortable." > > Actually the Victor was thought of as cutting-edge design at the time, > looking as it did like three boxes welded together rather than the more > rounded cars of the era. English Victors didn't have the fins that yours > had.
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