I may well have been watching a bit of Cheach & Chong when exploding car noises caused me to stick my head out of the window and see my beloved Ami Super going up. Of the 1/2 dozen Amis in the archive, at least 2 were Supers. Fantastic 1015cc of stealth rocket. I reckon to have posted some of my best A-B times in this great little car. Inboard discs were impossible to keep cool and after a hectic few miles could actually boil the fluid and render themselves all but useless. Brake fire was the suspected cause of this disaster. Ooh - is that a bit of Volvo C202 action going on in the background - great truck - swimmer too.
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I love that sooty stain on the windscreen. Spontaneous combustion in cars is very worrying; a chap I knew in the late sixties once had the wooden dashboard of his MG TD slowly catch fire in front of him as he drove along.
Do you know that I always wanted an Ami? Outrageously French. If you've got a left-hooker, Diplomat, I'll have it off you. Then I'll try to drive it back and probably leave it on the ferry because I can't be arsed.
Yeah Ron. I remember you talking about them with tear filled eyes back then. The notch back rear window one always caught my eye.
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