A museum where you can drive the cars

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The Great British Car Journey - a museum where you can drive the cars. Stephen Beard reports for Marketplace, 4 minutes :

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The car’s are driven with an instructor along on a 6mi closed course, Looks like a good mix of classic’s including a few Mini’s and a Reliant Robin.

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I was fascinated by the snippet and did some Googling (funny how that became a verb…)…

Below is the link to their Web page…

Below is a YouTube Video…

I really just want to get behind the wheel of my very first car, the 1954 Dodge Meadowbrook… And below is my old posting of a “drive” down memory lane.

Happy trails…

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Most American visiters could only look at the cars… Most are likely equipped with manual transmissions so they won’t able to drive them.

I applaud the museum for doing this.

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Sounds like a fantastic idea and the price of 105 pounds for 2 of the classics is not that bad.

I’d love to give the Reliant Robin a go but would probably get shown the exit door to the premises and told to never come back again. Yeah, I’d just have to yank the steering wheel just to see…

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Interesting idea, but I don’t think such a thing is possible in the USA. Too many liability worries. Personally, while I appreciate old cars, I’m happy to just look at them, don’t feel a need to drive them, other than the two I own of course ;).

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I have no interest in driving old cars… Drove enough of them when I was younger.

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I’d choose the Bentley Eight, Sunbeam Rapier, and Jaguar XJS.

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