New forum, club for pre war owners - thoughts please.

[dhutch]

Allan L said:

dhutch said:

Yes, I am very interested to drive a car an feel what the brakes are like for myself for the first time, but as you say, hard late braking from high (any) speed is not going to be the order of the day anyway and a bit like the traction engines looking ahead and an amount of defensive driving is obviously going to be the order of the day.

Driving older vehicles does require a better standard of driving, if you like to think that way.
There was a motto along the lines of "never drive into a situation that you can't see the way out of" which sums up what we might call defensive driving.

And of cause should remain just as true of driving any vehicle, just that with good brakes the distance you need to see can reduce a little. There is of course an amount off effect whereby you are at more risk if the vehicle in front can out-brake you than if the reverse is true, but at 40-50mph most of it reaction time anyway!


Daniel

[crankedup]

Nice couple of images dhutch, and thanks for a brilliant link which I will enjoy reading through tomorrow.

Enjoyed your website, full of interesting stuff. Simply fabulous.

Edited by crankedup on Friday 30th October 14:26