Hi Alan (You dirty stop out

)
Thanks for that.
I use a remote key board at my desk, not so easy on my lap.
Me and delicate wiring don't get on ... but I'm generally OK with Landy cables.
In my hey-day, we used to wait until chucked out of the South Croydon Coffee Bar, soon after midnight, then head for the cafe at Heathrow Airport, in convoy, 30 miles didn't seem very far .. then. Happy daze!
Ha! One evening I was standing at a bus stop, circa 10PM, with my then girl friend. A Jensen 541 approached, so I gave it the thumbs up. The driver thought I was thumbing a lift, and stopped. An opportunity too good to miss. The car was brand new that day, and he was trying it out. I suggested that my "challenging" circuit might be fun .... Croydon ... Godstone ... Redhill ... Croydon. So off we went. he dropped us back, at the end of my road, only about a mile from where he picked us up. An great experience, and it saved us the bus fare. I'm not sure my girlfriend felt the same way.
I've yearned after a 541 ever since.
That circuit used to take me 35/40 minutes in Dad's 1935 Austin 10 (howling tyres) One of the coffee bar fraternity did it in 25 minutes, in a Cooper built special ... FIAT Topolino chassis, Ford 10 engine, pretty little aluminiun body.
John
I've also scrounged rides in the MG 750cc that siezed up after 23 hous at Le Mans in 1931. And the Jag XK120 went airbourne going UP Sanderstead Hill.