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There's a white R4 on ebay (item 261014108350) and reference is made to the band Soft Machine....so I searched the web and here is an extract from www.manband-archive.com/evolution/history-man-ua-years.php
Extract from above link
The trip turned out to be fairly eventful; "Six of us from Fife set off in the early evening in an old Renault 4, Norrie Nicol driving, me in the passenger seat, John Harrower, Charlie Kilgour and Ian Blyth in the rear seat, and my sister Diane in the space between the back seat and back door! You wouldn't get away with that now, but nobody seemed to bother much then."
Micky Jones
"On the coast road between Burntisland and Aberdour on the way to the Forth Road Bridge is a 1:4 hill with a 90 degree left hand bend half way down, known locally as the Mains Brae. Norrie had just had the car serviced the day before, and it seemed to be running fine, but as we trundled down the hill, I noticed he was pumping the brake pedal and nothing was happening (cue for a song...). He looked at me, I looked back, grabbed the handbrake and said "You steer"....."
Deke Leonard
"The handbrake came all the way up with a ping and we had no brakes left. Norrie did pretty well, we got round the bend on two wheels, but ended up on the wrong side of the road swerving wildly. Another car was on the way uphill, and Norrie pulled us back onto the left side of the road, the wheels dug in and over we went. I remember hanging upside down in the belt, watching the roof crush in and sparks fly everywhere. The driver of the oncoming car, who had slammed into reverse and bailed out backwards at a rate of knots, told us afterwards that we rolled three times, but I don't remember any of that!"
Ken Whaley
"When we ground to a stop upside down, we all unlatched belts and crawled out. Total injuries - 3 or 4 bruises and a couple of cuts from glass when the windows all shattered. The petrol tank had sheared and spilt petrol everywhere, how we didn't all burn to death I'll never know. The police and fire brigade arrived, sorted everything out, we pushed the car (still upside down) in to the side of the road and rushed down the hill to Aberdour Station in time to catch the train to Edinburgh......"
Extract from above link
The trip turned out to be fairly eventful; "Six of us from Fife set off in the early evening in an old Renault 4, Norrie Nicol driving, me in the passenger seat, John Harrower, Charlie Kilgour and Ian Blyth in the rear seat, and my sister Diane in the space between the back seat and back door! You wouldn't get away with that now, but nobody seemed to bother much then."
Micky Jones
"On the coast road between Burntisland and Aberdour on the way to the Forth Road Bridge is a 1:4 hill with a 90 degree left hand bend half way down, known locally as the Mains Brae. Norrie had just had the car serviced the day before, and it seemed to be running fine, but as we trundled down the hill, I noticed he was pumping the brake pedal and nothing was happening (cue for a song...). He looked at me, I looked back, grabbed the handbrake and said "You steer"....."
Deke Leonard
"The handbrake came all the way up with a ping and we had no brakes left. Norrie did pretty well, we got round the bend on two wheels, but ended up on the wrong side of the road swerving wildly. Another car was on the way uphill, and Norrie pulled us back onto the left side of the road, the wheels dug in and over we went. I remember hanging upside down in the belt, watching the roof crush in and sparks fly everywhere. The driver of the oncoming car, who had slammed into reverse and bailed out backwards at a rate of knots, told us afterwards that we rolled three times, but I don't remember any of that!"
Ken Whaley
"When we ground to a stop upside down, we all unlatched belts and crawled out. Total injuries - 3 or 4 bruises and a couple of cuts from glass when the windows all shattered. The petrol tank had sheared and spilt petrol everywhere, how we didn't all burn to death I'll never know. The police and fire brigade arrived, sorted everything out, we pushed the car (still upside down) in to the side of the road and rushed down the hill to Aberdour Station in time to catch the train to Edinburgh......"
