"Glenn Booth" wrote


The revered Rustin Allaggro. I once had to pump three gallons of water
out of the petrol tank of one of those. To this day, I have no idea how
it got there. I was running a mobile disco using a 1750 Austin Maxi as a
'van' about then (1983?). It was a horrible piece of junk, but it just
wouldn't die, despite all my friends learning to drive in it.


I'm surprised to hear that - I always thought the Maxi was ****e-looking but
quite 'useable'.

There used to be a load of speed bumps in this road (on an Industrial
Estate, near the Bedford Truck factory in Dunstable) which were very big -
an 'up and over you go' kinda thing. However, if you floored this (brand
new) Maxi and took them all at DEAD ON 60 (I think it was) the car stayed
level and steady as a rock and the speed bumps just went 'whadap, whadap,
whadap' underneath!!

Great crack - scared any passengers to death and got you past dozens of
other cars doing the 'rock and roll' thing! :-)

(Another company car, you see.... ;-)