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Written by Craig Jamieson
This, ladies and gents, is the little engine that could, but in this case didn"t. Yes, this adorable slice of anti-exotica has rolled over just 141 miles of road in its 40-year life. Or, for the maths fans among you, an average of just three and a half miles a year. It"s not because it was a lemon or a pup or a brick or whatever cool kids are calling something that doesn"t work these days. It"s because it was bought new and delivered to the Science Museum in London for its Glimpses of Medical History" exhibit, where it helped demonstrate an apparatus that helped the infirm get in and out of cars. Which it did for nearly 40 years, until it was put into storage in 2017. So here we find a new niche within a niche for classic cars the ultra-clean, low-mileage, all-original example of a car that was entirely uninteresting when it was new.
Date written: 22 Jan 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14615
This, ladies and gents, is the little engine that could, but in this case didn"t. Yes, this adorable slice of anti-exotica has rolled over just 141 miles of road in its 40-year life. Or, for the maths fans among you, an average of just three and a half miles a year. It"s not because it was a lemon or a pup or a brick or whatever cool kids are calling something that doesn"t work these days. It"s because it was bought new and delivered to the Science Museum in London for its Glimpses of Medical History" exhibit, where it helped demonstrate an apparatus that helped the infirm get in and out of cars. Which it did for nearly 40 years, until it was put into storage in 2017. So here we find a new niche within a niche for classic cars the ultra-clean, low-mileage, all-original example of a car that was entirely uninteresting when it was new.
Date written: 22 Jan 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14615
