The City is Doomed (tm)

[ASB]

Morgan Aero 8 would be your kind of car MrMark although sadly I think you mean the morris minor traveller

Seem to remembey you could get a mini clubman with wood too.

[shaunbhoy]

Seem to remembey you could get a mini clubman with wood too.

What about the old Morris Minor Estate? The Tudor Estate car, as Billy Connolly termed it.

[Doggy Styles]

Wasn't the Marcos made of wood? A bit of a beast, I wonder what group insurance it was.

[Doggy Styles]

Oh, and the Mosquito. Although that was a warplane specially invented for bombing heavy water plants up Norwegian fjords.

[DiscoStu]

That's "brilliant" strategy - kill off your own homegrown industries run by people who have home here in exchange of highly mobile not-producing-anything folk that can quit very quickly.

People like you?

[OwlHoot]

He should have bought that car made with wood! Now that was impressive!

Back in the '60s a well-known eccentric Pakistani guy living in Wimbledon made a car almost entirely of wood, and decided to road-test it early one morning on Parkside, a long straight road that runs along the edge of Wimbledon common.

Unfortunately, as he reached a speed of about 50, something came slightly adrift and caught in the engine, and the car instantly almost literally exploded in a cloud of sawdust and matchwood throwing the guy about forty feet in the air!

Miraculously for him, there was a tree overhanging the road at that point, with lots of small branches, and instead of hitting the road he was twanged straight into this tree, where he remained suspended like a scarecrow for an hour or two until the fire brigade were able to get him down.

I didn't see the accident, but living nearby I saw the debris scattered along the road. I'm pretty sure he survived too, albeit perhaps with a few broken bones. Not sure if he tried building any more wooden cars though.

[AtW]

People like you?

No, I don't quit very quickly