Ruairidh, thats one hell of a roadside repair - hope you don't expect the rest of us to do things like that!

Bryan

Ian - If you wish to show a real roadside repair, I'm sure you still have the photo of the Beer-can Job (was it MacEwan's?) during a BA7C Run. Would be good if you could dig it out to show the troops. Cheers, Bill

Location: Euroa, Australia

Here is the photo you are remembering Bill -



Campsite repair by Bob Jones when his Ruby crankshaft/rod let go - on the road to Applecross, NW Scotland (?) - Ian will know more and the full story.

Another photo exists of the same car pushed on its side into a hedge at the side of the road with them changing the big ends - Jen may know of its whereabouts.

More recently in the Scottish Borders...

Well I dont think anyone will top the crankcase repair, so the following are of minor interest.

Argentina 2009 on the fabled Routa 40,"The car Killer" road, twice separated by two days the offside king pin was jacked out of the front axles. This was put down to the rather extreme camber, for the purpose of rain water run-off, and constantly turning left to counter act this camber, opposite to the normal right turn in the UK.

In both cases the thrust washers were found in the gravel beneath the cars and the drag link arms straightened with a locally sourced anvil and hammer of appropriate size. On the second occasion a tourist bus stopped to enjoy the spectacle and a hat was passed around to assist the poor travellers, obviously so impoverished they could not afford proper vehicles!

This is the '29 chummy of Diana Garside and River Dukes, the first to fall foul of Routa 40 malaise


The helpers were kept sustained by emergency soup at the site



This happened two days later to Vince Leek's RP



Here you see the Old Smythe at work with his trusty hammer.



No Baby Austins were permanenetly harmed in the production of these photos

Location: Sunny Cotswolds