The strange wedding car

The wedding car had been hired from Reilly's Private Hire Company. It was a strange machine.

Two tone - dirt and rust.

One previous owner - Ben Hur.

So old the log book was in Latin.

But worst of all it was extremely demanding on oil and petrol. In its time apparently it leaked that much oil that Arabs were known to have made a bid for the ground it stood on!

But petrol was worse - half a mile to a gallon at the most. So bad was it that Reilly had pulled into a self-service filling station and stood pumping gas for at least half an hour. Eventually the attendant came out and said to Reilly:

'You'll have to switch off your engine - you're catching us up!'