Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    My Cars
    My Cars
    My Cars
    Ebook58 pages42 minutes

    My Cars

    By Charles G. Dyer

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    This is a sort of potted history of forty-six years of motoring. It is the story of the vehicles that I have driven, and occasionally wrecked and repaired since I first ventured onto the road. Included are the cars that I wanted to build and the one that I successfully completed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles G. Dyer
    Release dateMay 6, 2017
    ISBN9781370449323
    My Cars
    Author

    Charles G. Dyer

    Charles Dyer is a consulting engineer, former senior lecturer and former technical magazine editor. He creates 3D models to help with visualisation and realism in his writing.

    Read more from Charles G. Dyer

    Related to My Cars

    Related ebooks

    Biography & Memoir For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      A Trip Around Middle Earth

      Dec 12, 2021

      A Trip Around Middle Earth
      9 min read

    • Article

      KALAHARI Ferrari

      Oct 13, 2021

      KALAHARI Ferrari
      8 min read

    • Article

      Death Of A Shooting Brake

      Jul 15, 2022

      Death Of A Shooting Brake
      7 min read

    • Article

      Your Mail

      Jul 25, 2023

      Your Mail
      4 min read

    • Article

      Disco Survivor

      Sep 16, 2020

      Disco Survivor
      6 min read

    • Article

      My First Car

      Mar 28, 2023

      My First Car
      4 min read

    • Article

      Back Box

      Sep 29, 2021

      Back Box
      3 min read

    • Article

      Sleeping With The Enemy

      Jul 17, 2023

      Sleeping With The Enemy
      9 min read

    • Article

      Hard Lesson

      Dec 5, 2022

      Hard Lesson
      6 min read

    • Article

      Into My Car

      Nov 9, 2022

      Into My Car
      10 min read

    • Article

      Into My Car

      Nov 9, 2022

      Into My Car
      10 min read

    • Article

      Into My Car

      Nov 9, 2022

      Into My Car
      10 min read

    • Article

      Quarry Lorry

      Aug 25, 2023

      Quarry Lorry
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Step Back In Time

      Apr 24, 2023

      A Step Back In Time
      3 min read

    • Article

      Different Times

      Dec 22, 2021

      Different Times
      7 min read

    • Article

      Phil White

      Jul 7, 2023

      BIO: Phil White’s first job, at 15, involved restoring classic cars. A decade later he began writing about them in magazines. 35 years on, he’s still at it. He plans to grow up at some point, but in the meantime climbing rocks, running, cycling and,

      4 min read

    • Article

      Go Anywhere

      Apr 28, 2021

      Go Anywhere
      10 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Aug 7, 2020

      Letters
      6 min read

    • Article

      King Luff

      Jul 6, 2022

      King Luff
      7 min read

    • Article

      Knuckleheads I've Met

      May 24, 2023

      Knuckleheads I've Met
      4 min read

    • Article

      Steve Normoyle

      May 18, 2022

      It was, Andrew Miedecke remembers: “the closest I came to dying, not in a racing car but at the track.” You can read more about that in part two of our Miedecke feature on page 56. But I can tell you here that he’s not kidding, because I was there th

      4 min read

    • Article

      Ticket, Sir?

      Apr 5, 2024

      Ticket, Sir?
      6 min read

    • Article

      Volvo country

      Apr 2, 2020

      Volvo country
      5 min read

    • Article

      Duzgo Does The Job

      Mar 19, 2021

      Duzgo Does The Job
      6 min read

    • Article

      Seeking Lost Tribes

      Mar 16, 2020

      Seeking Lost Tribes
      11 min read

    • Article

      Five Decade Slumber

      Aug 6, 2021

      Five Decade Slumber
      4 min read

    • Article

      My Muscle Car

      Sep 1, 2021

      My Muscle Car
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for My Cars

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      My Cars - Charles G. Dyer

      My Cars

      CHARLES G. DYER

      Cover: The centrepiece is the car that I built from scratch as a miniature Land Rover. Clockwise from the top are: Renault R8, Volkswagen Beetle, Fiat 500, Mini Clubman, Triumph Herald, Datsun SSS, Peugeot 504, Volkswagen Fox, Fiat Uno, Opel Corsa, Honda Civic & Uno panel van and Honda Jazz.

      Copyright © 2017 Charles G. Dyer

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 9781370449323

      Smashwords Edition

      License

      Thank you for purchasing this book. Names, characters and incidents are products of the author’s imagination. It remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be reproduced, copied and distributed for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to purchase their own copy at Smashwords.com, where they can also discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      It would be greatly appreciated if you could post a review on the site where you purchased this book. If you have any comments about this book, good or bad, you can write to me at cgd@telkomsa.net.

      CONTENTS

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      About The Author

      Chapter One

      I was fourteen or fifteen when I first sat in the driver's seat of a car. It was my grandmother's pride and joy, a mink blue Ford Anglia. Needless to say, I did not have permission, and it was locked in the garage.

      It was the fourth Anglia model and it was quite different from its predecessors in style. It had a sweeping nose line with a chrome grille in between protruding eye-like headlamps. A backward-slanted rear window and subtler tailfins than its American counterparts imparted a sleek racy look. It had a 997-cc engine and a four-speed manual gearbox.

      My curiosity about how things worked often led to their destruction. I was forever dismantling things and often breaking them in the process.

      The car was no exception. I had a penknife with a serrated fish-scaling blade. It fitted the ignition keyhole perfectly.

      With minimal effort, the penknife turned and the car started. Fortunately, it was in neutral. I was so surprised that I quickly withdrew the knife and quietly crept away.

      A year or so later, I was visiting a farm and the farmer showed me how to drive a small Massey Ferguson tractor. Not only did I drive it but I also was able to plough a small section of his lands, albeit not as straight as he would have liked.

      Shortly before I was conscripted into the army, my grandmother took me to an open field next to a lake where she taught me how to drive her Anglia. At the time I was sixteen and still too young to apply for a driving licence.

      The army provided me with a fantastic opportunity. I was on an instructor's course at the Army Gymnasium, Heidelberg, about thirty miles southeast of Johannesburg.

      After we completed three months of gruelling basic training, our corporal instructor said, OK you lot, we need drivers. Anyone who has a driver's licence and wants to become a driver step forward.

      Keen to avoid the next phase of training and interested in driving, I stepped forward.

      The corporal glared dubiously at me. Have you got a licence?

      I thought, It's not my problem if you don't know that I'm too young to have one. I lied with a

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1