Tell you another weird car. The original 1957 type F type Vauxhall Victor. They looked like a sort of attempt to scale down a '57 Chevrolet for the UK market (Vauxhall being owned by General Motors) but was nowhere near as nice.
Also, they had no chassis legs and the structure of the vehicle was simplt supposed to derive from the body shell itself with no reinforcement.
The result of this was that the body used to twist and flex and the windscreen would sometimes fly out if one of the rear wheels was jacked up.
A mechanic I used to know also told me that years ago he knew a professional wrestler who bought one new and one night arranged to take three other wrestlers to a bout in Sheffield from Bury. When they arrived, the doors would not open and they were trapped in the car as the weight of these four big guys had distorted the body so much that the doors jammed.
They were also a notorious rot box and, in fact, I am suprised there any still going
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