What a treat, I just watched this! Beautiful country and such a nice little car. Greetings from Portland, Oregon in the US. Best of luck with your A30!
Many thanks for your appreciative comments. We love it when these little rough and ready videos find an audience far away. You'll be able to work out our route last evening quite easily with Google maps. Have been through your area back in the mid 1990's when took Amtrak from Seattle to Denver. A memorable journey. Train had to go very slowly on some sections.
This is the model of car I first drove. It belonged to a farmer, wwho had left to rot in the middle of oneof his paddocks. A group of us high school kids asked him if we could try and get the car going and drive it around in the paddock (field) he was fine with that, (before legal liability became a thing) I muct say I learned a lot of useful thin gs sliding along in the mud and wet grass in that car. I should add, that it wasnt a pretty and well cared for car to begin with, and not at all in the condition your vehicle is. The slop in the steering wheel alone was about half a turn.
Delighted to know that the video of Bertie has evoked happy memories of a youthful encounter with one. Early A series cars must be amongst the easiest to coax to run even when pretty clapped out. There are apparently at least 2000 still registered. We have found the A30 steering to be light and accurate with very litte in the way of constant correction so Bertie has clearly been well maintained over the past 70 years. We know about sloppy steering as also have a well used Series Land Rover, grey Fergie tractors etc so the bar is not set high.
What a treat, I just watched this! Beautiful country and such a nice little car. Greetings from Portland, Oregon in the US. Best of luck with your A30!
Many thanks for your appreciative comments. We love it when these little rough and ready videos find an audience far away. You'll be able to work out our route last evening quite easily with Google maps. Have been through your area back in the mid 1990's when took Amtrak from Seattle to Denver. A memorable journey. Train had to go very slowly on some sections.
This is the model of car I first drove. It belonged to a farmer, wwho had left to rot in the middle of oneof his paddocks. A group of us high school kids asked him if we could try and get the car going and drive it around in the paddock (field) he was fine with that, (before legal liability became a thing) I muct say I learned a lot of useful thin gs sliding along in the mud and wet grass in that car. I should add, that it wasnt a pretty and well cared for car to begin with, and not at all in the condition your vehicle is. The slop in the steering wheel alone was about half a turn.
Delighted to know that the video of Bertie has evoked happy memories of a youthful encounter with one. Early A series cars must be amongst the easiest to coax to run even when pretty clapped out. There are apparently at least 2000 still registered. We have found the A30 steering to be light and accurate with very litte in the way of constant correction so Bertie has clearly been well maintained over the past 70 years. We know about sloppy steering as also have a well used Series Land Rover, grey Fergie tractors etc so the bar is not set high.