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by dhbuchanan » Tue Sep 25, 2018 10:12 pm
A wise move in view of the higher burning temperature of unleaded, methanol-rich fuel: depending on the weather, you could have been in trouble without the vents. During our foray into the continent for the 10th anniversary of the Belgian Rover Club in 1991, the weather was so hot I was forced to remove the side-panels of the 20 altogether and tie the bonnet down in order to avoid boiling while running. Not long afterwards, the rad. was given the recore it clearly needed. Another memory of that trip was the diabolical condition of the dual carriageway linking Zeebrugge with Antwerp. I had always assumed that roads in western Europe were better than ours, but ended up driving most of the way on the hard shoulder on account of tramlining in the deep ruts. The advent of radials in our sizes has since solved that problem here at home, albeit at a price....
1939 20 H.P. Salmons Tickford D.H.C.