Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

Writers of laws and regulations.

He was lucky. Here the last one I heard, died. Or the other person in the other front seat.

Different country, different language :-)

I had a '82 AH Sprite, essentially the same as a Midget. The gas gauge didn't work and one evening I ran out about three blocks from home. It was level ground so I could easily walk beside it. The plan was going good until I came to an intersection with a cop directing traffic. "Do you always take your car for a walk?"

I think it had a top speed of 80 mph on a good day. The '62 had a slightly larger engine than the Bugeye but the same inadequate brakes which made life interesting. To put the top up, you got a frame, the side curtains, and the canvas out of the trunk, erected the frame, put the canvas over it, snapped it down around the perimeter, put the side curtains in place, and tightened the thumbscrews.

That was the theory. In sudden rain storms you motored on and got soaked because you were going to anyway.

I bought a tonneau cover where you had to install the snaps to fit. I did the job on a hot summer day and you could bounce a quarter off it. Come fall and colder weather I could just about push the car down the driveway trying to get it zipped and snapped.

My brother in law asked how the thing handled in a sarcastic tone. I did a bootlegger turn. 'Oh' he said, very quietly.

That was part of the fun. Work on them Saturday afternoon and go to the dirt track races Saturday night.

I always carried a tool kit and a gallon of gasoline in the trunk.

I had an 1100cc Sprite that got totalled, crushed between two giant American cars, to about half its original length. I took the insurance money and got a 1275 Midget.

I sold it to an artist. It's the Rolling Surf car near the end of this page:

Drive fast enough and only your hair gets wet.

Radical oversteer.

I can multitask.

Until the place warms up and the insects come out to dance.

I recently bought an airbrush. The instruction manual has a few phrases like 'remove all makeup buildup around the nozzle'. Rather scary to contemplate.

Now that's impressive. When a tractor trailer drives under a low overpass it doesn't have the horsepower or momentum to peel back more than half of the trailer.

It's a beautiful ride, but don't scrimp on the light.

Fun until you get older and just want the comfort :)

And AWD and a ski rack.

A great book:

Not really. Midgets were pretty neutral on handling. Until you pushed them too far, then you got the back stepping out, like as not. But that was controllable. Worst car ever was a Ford Escort Mk I 1100. there the front would slide on loose or slippy surfaces and then the back would as well. Curiously, I pretty much wrote that one off..it was me mums, and we were driving some years after the mole valley floods over a temporary bridge that had been there at least 6 years, over the Mole at Cobham . The bridge featured a steep ramp, and then a metal plate, before the wooden surface. In the wet, using throttle to get up the ramp at less than

I grew up with American iron and power oversteer. My first FWD car was an Audi LS100. That experience almost ended badly before I got it sorted out. I'd bought it prior to the national 55 mph speed limit and it was a car that could have inspired the 'I can't drive 55' song. It was geared with Autobahns in mind, not snail trails.

There are also variations in the colour sensitivity of the alleles. Some women have two different varieties on their two X chromosomes, and may be able to differentiate colours that normal people can't.

Andy

The trick is to lower the track, not raise the bridge. But it does mean closing the line for quite a long time...

Andy