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34The less charitable recorded a view that he was lucky to have landed on his head so escaping serious injury.David ForsythMotoring As It WasMy first car (a 1934 Austin 10) purchased for the princely sum of %u00a310 at Cranwell would only ever get up the hill out of Lincoln if either every-one got out to push or I put it in reverse and passengers walked to the topTook my driving test in it. The examiner stepped in and promptly put his foot through the rotten, plywood floorboards. Failed. Never got out of the Cranwell car park.Lights on same car failed half way down the A1 at night. Hit in the rear by a brand new Cortina....his front end a write off. My rear-end, or rather the Austin%u2019s, hardly a scratch.Awarded \hand basin when we lived in the Junior Mess Barrack BlocksTony StaceyBy Royal Appointment?Me giving a lift to Rich Bolt and Rick Watts to the Portsmouth area in my Rover 75, stopping every 10 miles for radiator water (blocked but I was convinced it was leaking). That included asking for some at the door of a cottage in the middle of Windsor Great Park.Dave Cockburn