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Title: Aprilia on the road - then! Post by: ColinMarr on 29 October, 2009, 10:11:21 PM Just for me to celebrate my 501st post on the forum – here’s a photo of my Aprilia taken at Milton Abbas (Dorset) in 1965. I remember it well.
Colin Title: Re: Aprilia on the road - then! Post by: ben on 29 October, 2009, 11:30:31 PM Delightful picture Colin.
Did the car have the semaphores modded to flashers that stick out like ears? My car had something similar back in '65. Title: Re: Aprilia on the road - then! Post by: ColinMarr on 31 October, 2009, 12:36:53 AM Ben,
No, I couldn’t bear the idea of those elephant ears! My car had what I think were called semaphore trafficators, which worked reasonably OK. In my case they were non-original Lucas units, which sometimes stuck and a rear passenger had to bang on the side to get them to start. Another oddity was that at speed they tended to drift out a bit on their own. Probably very dangerous and nowadays I would go for discrete flashers mounted on the wings, or bumpers. Colin |