You are reading a single comment by @paininthe and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
And given that the cars we were driving with tended to be tuned rather rich for performance rather than economy, you could tell when you'd had a long day's driving...
When i did the South of France in the Stag in the early 80s, we never had the top up whilst driving after leaving the UK for the whole time we was away. Pretty much my face was like that all the time. My partner, a head shorter, never had bother.
paininthe
Brommers
As you can see the chap behind is also driving in a cap, intercom headset and sunglasses. That's in a 260bhp Caterham. We did used to wear helmets for long motorway journeys, but that was more for noise attenuation than anything else. That car's pretty low geared - at 80mph on the French autoroute in top gear the engine's doing just over 9krpm, and the induction noise alone is pretty deafening.
Oh, and hailstorms. They weren't fun. Not fun at all.
And given that the cars we were driving with tended to be tuned rather rich for performance rather than economy, you could tell when you'd had a long day's driving...