I was delivering a Mercedes to the dealers in The Cow Roast at Tring by trailer. I had to turn left off the road and then left again onto their forecourt.
Half way round the second left, I was keeping an eye on the twenty foot long trailer as I had to pass a row of sales cars on the nearside when the whole outfit stopped dead with a bang. When I got out I saw that the offside front corner of the Range Rover had been destroyed by a short steel post...the one that a barrier came down on !
" It's ok" said the manager, " Lots of people hit that !" Six feet welded on top would have helped ! Cost me a second hand bonnet, headlamp and bumper.
They had the cheek to send me a bill for £75 to repair the post. I told them to ssip off !
As an aside, I had a neighbour with me as we were going on to Harrow to pick up a 1934 Daimler Light 14. An uncle had died and for years Alec had been promised the car. The will left everything to the elderly, female housekeeper who lived next door in a house also owned by the old uncle. No mention of the car. However , Alec had worked on her and she relented.
Also, in the house and garage, every room was lined with shelves holding O gauge railway locomotives and rolling stock. We weren't allowed in the house and she kept an eagle eye on us in the garage in case a couple of locos fell onto the back seats of the Daimler.
So, a widow, mid-eighties inherited two 4 bedroom semis in Harrow, all the contents and half a million quid in readies.
Aint life a bummer !
Ted
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