Article: I ought to carry the can for this scare; PETERBOROUGH.(Letters)

ABEAUTIFUL day was in prospect, and we had a long journey to make, so we decided to take our classic Mercedes convertible and 'give it a blow'.

However, when we braked at the end of our road, I heard a loud 'boing' from underneath the passenger seat.

My husband didn't hear it as he is quite deaf, and we had the hood down, so we continued for a few miles with the boing happening every time he applied the brakes. Fearing the suspension was about to collapse, I commented that I wasn't very happy about the noise as I didn't want us to break down almost 100 miles from home. But he said 'you'll just have to put up with it. I'm not going back now' and carried ...

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