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A valuable Hillman lesson
I was surprised to see my old green Hillman Super Minx in your 13/20 December issue. This photo must have been taken pre-Covid at the Ormskirk MotorFest because I can identify it by the British Leyland door mirrors and Siram clip-on picnic tables on the rear doors.
As a coincidence, in the following week’s issue you showed the Conwy road tunnel on the A55 and once I was on our way to a car meet when the Hillman spluttered and failed inside that tunnel. Very scary!
Luckily a friendly white van man stopped and towed us out to a refuge. The local highway patrol then arrived and towed us into a nearby industrial estate where we discovered that the rotor arm had cracked and failed. It was brand new, having been fitted the day before. Luckily I had kept the old part in my tool bag, which worked perfectly when fitted.
The moral of this story is that you should always keep the old parts when you service your vehicle just in case – they may be old but will likely work. My father drummed this into me very early on!
Sound advice, Tony. And you’re spot on – the shot was originally taken at the Ormskirk MotorFest back in 2016. I remember it well – Ed.
I’ve had enough of ‘experts’
I am always amused at the so-called experts’ predictions. In your 3 January issue the experts interviewed by CCW say that classics will get cheaper, citing locked-in high interest rates that are unlikely to change as an example.
