Over the weekend of 30th-31st July 2016 I put the car to its first real test. Previously I had driven to Southend, which is about 70 miles, but on this trip some friends and I drove to Brighton, via Southend, travelling clockwise around the M25 and over Dartford’s Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, racking up about 160 miles in all. We returned home the following day, continuing clockwise, bringing the total round-trip to over 260 miles.
The car didn’t miss a beat and the trip was successful, if not somewhat tiring.
On the way home I found an 1950 AEC Regent III bus in a service station and couldn’t resist a side-by-side photo. This particular bus was built in 1950, although the prototype of the design was produced as early as 1938, and the last of these buses operated in London until 1979.
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