On 19/3/98 9:04 am Lawrie Alexander said
>I drove around the New Forest roads last November in Vauxhall Vectra. Funny
>how all the journeys between towns have shrunk so much since the fifties!
>What used to take an hour and a half in the Hillman is a 25 minute ride
>today!! When my PA restoration is done, I plan to take the car back to
>England and try and make all those roads as long as they used to be...
Sadly those wonderful New Forest roads are no longer fun to drive on: a
blanket 40mph speed limit has been imposed. Yet another blow to the
motorist :-(
Philip Raby
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