i think we were lucky to have been able to drive these cars first as opposed to new cars you DRIVE old cars but new cars try and take the skill from you

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

So true!

good to see the lad interested.great video again

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Robin👍

A really nice drive, and very competently handled. But I'm so jealous of those quiet Suffolk lanes and farm roads.

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. I am really lucky and I love sharing this with you.

Great idea to practice off road, 'The Boy did good' I think it looks like he will get to love it just like Dad, well done. I did something similar with my Daughter, but she went straight into London on a Sunday to drive the Stag around the docklands , London bridge and the embankment as a background vehicle to suit a song she had written and was recording, all when very well and the Stag stayed in one piece. Lucky me, she has used it many times since and now loves it. Wishing you both good luck. Bob

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

That is a wonderful story Bob. So great to be able to share passions with our children 😊

Hi Sean, from Sydney, Australia. Interesting to see a young guy (your son) that really noticed the difference in what is to me not a really old-fashioned car. As you said within the video, these were a missile in the 1960's as they had decent handling dynamics, power & brakes. I grew to be 6foot 3" tall but, I was 5foot 10" tall at11 yrs old!! My mums family owned 3 large laundry and dry-cleaning facilities/factories. The biggest at Chatswood was truly vast. It had its own private cement roadways, a huge open sided hangar to park 5 dozen VW Kombi's and miscellaneous other vehicles in. Let me tell you I lived to be able to drive on the open road. As a very tall, little kid when it was school holidays I'd go with my Grandad early in the morning and start by refueling VW Kombi's, then I'd back them up to the loading dock so the poles to allow hangered clothes to be slid into the vans. We had some Dodge Brothers 1930's prime movers and trailers with special rolling equipment within them for the huge curtains that could be 100 or 200 feet long from the tall city buildings so they could be loose cranked and rolled into the trailer for re hanging once cleaned. Using old steel dust bins I had taught myself to back this large heavy duty 1930's semi's into the loading docks and not hit anything. Sean, if your son thought that the Triumph's steering was heavy lord knows what he would have made of the big old Dodge truck steering. I have often wondered how much fuel I used driving them in rectangular circles around the main building on our own private roadways. I taught myself double declutching into low gears to ease use of brakes. Or reversing the semi the full length of the main building then backing it 90 degrees around the corner what fun i had . Was interesting to watch your son get used to the Triumph, as an MX5 Mazda driver I would have thought that he would have felt instantly at home in a car almost of the same length & width also a manual and convertible. To me modern cars are ghostly with some of their controls. The glaring ones being fly by wire controls of accelerator, the steering and the brakes most of which give ZERO input back to the driver, which to me makes them dangerous. As there is no mechanical physical connection in these essential tasks. There have been failures in these dynamics accident investigation teams have had multiple cases of input failure and the outcome in every case has been either death or injury and the only reason for this size and weight packaging in new cars. When I was 15 from my dad's side of the family I was given an old Holden that had belonged to a great aunt, the car had a frozen engine with 2 pulled rods and was deemed valueless. With Pa an industrial engineer he & I tore it to pieces and within a few weeks it was like new again, however I could only drive it on our property until I turned 17 & obtained a driver's license. As a kid I had been saving so I could buy a car when I was old enough. Then by fluke I was given one for free, so I redoubled my efforts and kept saving for my "dream" car. In the meantime, I taught my girlfriend how to drive properly and kept saving, for that dream car , a Jaguar 4.2litre MK10 .

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

Hi Greg, such a fascinating account of how you learned to drive and taught yourself mechanics. We seem to come from such a different automotive era. Cars hold little more interest for most people today than washing machines. Everyone has one and they are pretty much all the same. I feel sad that kids don't have the joy of being able to distinguish a car from a glimpse of tail light, exhaust note or transmission noise as we could. The sheer satisfaction of a perfect down shift with heel and toe or just a simple rev match, is denied our children. The joy of driving the car you yearned for and mended yourself is sadly a vanishing one. Good to hear from you from all the way down under 😀

I had a 13/60 convertible, same year and my memories are not that it was difficult to drive, it had no suspension so it would try and shake you to death. You two bouncing around confirms it was not unusual.

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

I think you are right Peter. In period of course BSM ran a fleet of 1200 Heralds to teach people to drive. As it turns out David adjusted very well to the lack of power steering (but of course this car has much wider wheels and radials, plus a lowered suspension and smaller steering wheel, so it will feel heavier than it would if it was stock.) I was pleased how quickly he got the hang of the brakes, but you will see in my next video (tomorrow) that on the road he managed to lock up the wheels during an unscheduled stop.! The bounciness is something from another era - especially in the back seat where it becomes hilarious!

Great video. I'm not sure that I've ever paused to think of what it might be like to first drive a classic car after only driving more modern cars. Here in the States in the late 70's I learned to drive in my dad's 1969 Chevrolet El Camino. It had a 3-speed column shift and there was no power assist of any sort. I then bought a '72 Spitfire, which felt incredibly nimble by comparison. I never owned another classic sports car after the Triumph. These days I have a Honda S2000. While similar in spirit to the Spitfire, it is also worlds apart. However, a number of years ago I did have the pleasure of driving a late 60's MGB. After growing up with the sort of vehicles that I did, I thought little of the driving experience - other than how enjoyable it was.

@seanhumfrey

11 ай бұрын

Great comment, thank you 👍I think those of us who learned to drive between 1960 and 1980, probably had the very best experiences that real driving had to offer. It came with a necessary mechanical sympathy and sense of balance... Like being able to dance or skateboard. Driving then was all about what you felt through the seat of your pants (or trousers as we say in England 😂)

My TR6 brakes definitely require muscle! Your O/D description is a slightly bungled engineer to human explanation😁 Lovely car. My dad admired the Triumph 2000 but never got one. 2000 Victor with O/D, good but just not as good with a lumpy 4 instead of one of the most lovely straight sixes ever.

@seanhumfrey

7 ай бұрын

I think you are being generous. I watched this back a few weeks ago and I am not sure that I actually understood my own explanation 😂

Lovely video again Sean, there is a nice dynamic between you and your son, get the younger generation involved and we will see classic cars on our roads for longer, thank you Cheers Mike

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

Lovely comment Mike, thank you. I really hope we can also get younger people involved with repairing and restoring old vehicles. I worry about the loss of traditional skills in our world of old cars.

You and your son have a beautiful relationship 😊.

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

Bless you. I am very lucky with both my sons.

The main difference I find between classic and modern cars is that it is much easier to stall in an older car. My Ford Mondeo has a form of anti-stall, dont know how it works, but if you take off on a slight uphill without touching the throttle it automatically revs the engine slightly

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

That is interesting Robert. Perhaps someone can explain why that is. Engine management systems, perhaps?

I drove my Uncles mk1 modified 3.0 Capri through some Lincolnshire country roads which was quite something... Braking as you mentioned being the main issue, it takes some acclimatizing to putting your foot through the front bumper before there is any reduction in speed. It had an issue with fumes entering the cabin too so was a dizzying experience in more ways than one. Modern cars are purely digital in the feedback they offer.

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

Wow Mark, a 3 Litre Capri. That must have gone like a scalded cat! What a great experience!

@marks7197

Жыл бұрын

@@seanhumfrey Yeah it had bigger carbs etc as well and behaved like something that would be better suited to a circuit or at least where nothing comes from the opposite direction.

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

@@marks7197 Nice👍👍👍

The steering will be heavier than it shouild be with a small diameter steering wheel and wide alloys and tyres....

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. My preference would always be to keep these cars stock, but these are the lives they have lived with previous custodians and I feel reluctant to undo their work. Somehow it would be like erasing part of their history.

Propper car..

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🙏

Stop "dadsplaining" everything! 😂

@seanhumfrey

Жыл бұрын

Oh so true Mike, so true 😂