re: #97 RealityBasedSteve

OMG… Top Gear has the car I learned to drive in, an Opal Kadet for one of their “cheap car challenges” I don’t think it will end well.

RBS

I took a used one for a test drive back in about 1972. I made it onto the main street, at which point the vehicle coughed, stopped running, and starting emitting an ominous cloud of black smoke from under the hood. I pulled over and bailed out just as flames erupted. I called the fire department from a nearby store but the little car was fully involved before they got there. It was a burnt out hulk by the time the dealer got it back.