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Fast cars, Pt 4

I got my driver's licence at Legoland driving a bumper car made of oversized lego it was only good for a week but I was free later there would be the mandatory hill start on a black iced street and the parallel park where you weren't necessarily allowed to use the what are bumpers for excuse and driving downtown with one ways and bus lanes and all manner of hell and I was free that time too but driver's ed left its mark you see my instructor used to drive one of those London double deckers with a self-changing gear box made by the Birmingham Small Arms Company BSA for short which my instructor told me was short for Bloody Sore Ass he told me of his proficiency in shifting gears knowing by the sound of the engine when to step it up and when I practised racing shifts accidentally without the cluth in a Toyota Hilux stressing the engine's capacity or power or torque I wasn't sure it was wise to shift without engagi...