British Cars

Chapter 6 of the curmudgeon handbook demands that I broaden my international skills at being, err, curmudgeony.  So I have been watching reruns of "The Avengers"


What is perhaps the most entertaining part, to this engineer, is that the show has functioning British cars.  Steed's Rolls (Bentley?) burns oil at a furious rate, and Emma Peel's little sports car actually starts and runs.


I garaged my brother's classic Jaguar XKE for years in Cranford, and to this day, it still delights me that when it was in the mood, it would start up.  As an appreciator of performance cars, once underway, it was an exciting vehicle.  In high performance, your passenger couldn't lean forward to touch the dash.


But, being a British car, those were the rare days.