Reminds me of a mate of mine, Col Dodds, who took his beautiful Mercedes 190 SL
convertible and ran it at a Historic Race meeting at Amaroo Park many years
ago.
Even when he backed off the accelerator, the car kept accelerating through
corners....
Turns out the throttle linkage ran just under the floor, where Colin was
bracing himself with his left foot...
;-)
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> On 30 Dec 2014, at 8:31 am, Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Have the upholstery for our BN2 largely done so I slapped the driver's seat
> in and took her for a ride. Car has a 'feature' I hadn't anticipated: When
> driving the 100 the driver's door kept popping open (embarrassing if not flat
> dangerous). When driving my BJ8 I often rest/brace my left knee against the
> door panel. Finally figured out that when I moved my knee to its usual 'left
> brace' position--the 100 has an opening in the door panel instead of a solid
> panel like the BJ8--my knee would hit the door opening cable and, well, the
> cable did what it was supposed to do!
>
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