CAR WITH A PAST

Grey River Argus, 28 August 1946, Page 3

CAR WITH A PAST

“Some of the cars I have seen lately are really fit only for some engineering museum. The miracle is that they can move at all. My own car is one of them. It was a good car before the war but it has led a terrible life since then. It has a raffish, dissipated look due to the fact that one side of it is not quite the same colour as the other, the result of a conflict with a Canadian lorry in the course of a Home Guard scheme away back in 1942. The garage people, having straightened out the right mud-guard and the door, were unable to match the paint and so they did the next best thing. Then my car was not improved when a crate of Molotoff cocktails —as our primitive fire bombs were called in the early days—which my wife was bringing to me from the police station leaked steadily all the way home. Fortunately she doesn’t smoke!”—(H. V. Morton, telling 8.8. C. overseas listeners about “Life at Home.”)