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We've had exactly that! Overheard as we bought a ticket in a car park "Did you see that old racing car come in?"

Mind you, could be worse, if we were driving a car with all the 'Heritage' extra's, gold and bling ....."Was that Liberace?"

As it was my original post I hope you'll excuse a little thread drift.

I think we're almost all agreed on the overwhelmingly positive response the M3W gets, especially with kiddies. Over my last eighteen months or so of ownership I can't say it's always been the same with animals.

Met a smashing old lady just after I'd first taken delivery. I was about to leave, and she was just walking to, our local newsagent. As I started the engine her dog, a Jack Russell cross at a guess, went absolutely ballistic. Completely flipped and would have attacked the car were it not for the lead. I stopped the engine and she got him under control. She was so apologetic, said he'd never done anything like it before, not even with noisy bikes. We came to the conclusion that the Moggies "face" must have scared him, the sudden noise of course didn't help.

Had a couple of issues as well when passing horses, even at a real crawl, when cars in front have driven by, the Moggie has made a couple quite skittish. Thankfully nothing worse but it was also slightly unpleasant from my perspective because I felt quite exposed, and oh so low.

On the other hand pheasants don't even seem to register the cars existence, other than being almost magnetically attracted that is. That last point has been covered before I believe...

When passing horses one definitely needs to give them extra care.

If they are coming the other way I usually pull in and switch off to let them pass.

Trying to overtake is difficult and I usually hold back but make sure the rider knows I am behind and wait for the wave on. The rider will often pull in a gateway and wave you past but always best to give them extra caution and try to keep the revs down when passing and well beyond afterwards as it could be a particularly nervous horse.

I'm afraid on my old Velo I am usually holding onto my clip ons for dear life.. A nod of the head has to suffice. In my Morgan a frantic waving at anything remotely interesting gets a similar response.. I don't lose sleep if I miss one or two.