When I lived in California and worked at the studios I used my +8 as a daily driver with a 50 mile round trip for over 6 years. The weather was mostly blistering sun sitting in the stagnate Los Angeles Freeway traffic but when it did rain it rained in torrential buckets. The +8 held up remarkably well with regular maintenance and TLC, certainly not garage queen material. I became a regular feature on the 210 Freeway and had a couple of articles written about me "the eccentric British driver in his cloth helmet and goggles" in the local newspapers. I became acquainted with Jay Leno as he used to see me pulling into the Studios, my boss Barry Meyer the CEO of Warner Bros. used to introduce me "as our one and only nutty Brit" and on quite a few occasions asked me to take some very well known people for a drive. My +8 is going strong with many more long distance rally miles added but still original.
Last edited by britmog; 11/09/22 02:58 PM.
