Fascinating. Good quality video!

Paul

> On Nov 9, 2017, at 4:40 AM, John Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alan - I was company accountant for Solomon and Co, at that time the 
> biggest company on the
> island - general merchants, doing just about everything!  Not sure which car 
> was carrying the video
> camera - could even have been my old Zephyr, No. 289.
> This part of the island is the driest, but building there is encouraged by 
> government, and it is
> only a  five minute drive from Jamestown - or 4 minutes down Jacob's Ladder 
> if you are brave enough!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan C
> Sent: Thursday, 9 November 2017 6:01 PM
> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: OT (completely) - driving on St. Helena
> 
> Interesting. More civilized that I thought. What on earth did you do there 
> for 4 years? The
> cinematographer's car was apparently a real rattletrap!
> 
> Alan C
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Coyle
> Sent: 9 November, 2017 9:45 AM
> To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'
> Subject: OT (completely) - driving on St. Helena
> 
> I think the car buffs here might appreciate this.  The link leads to a short 
> video of a drive from
> Jamestown to Half Tree Hollow, which was a large part of my daily drive to 
> and from work when I
> lived on the island, 1967-69
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70pRc-004Kw
> 
> Road rules there included that cars coming down the hill had to give way to 
> those coming up - as, of
> course, most of the cars at that time, being of English manufacture, were 
> under-powered!
> My car was a 1966 Ford Zephyr, a bit more powerful than most.
> 
> 
> John in Brisbane
> 
> 
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