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Admittedly having a car you don't give a toss about helps in such games.
This is very true!
Back in the day I had an old Austin Westminster, I think I paid a fiver for it. It had no exhaust to speak of (audible warning of approach) and one headlight hanging out of the rust eaten wing on the wires - plus other minor foibles.
EVERYONE gave way to that car! Road hogs, lorries, taxis, it didn't matter if I was in the wrong lane or the wrong side of the road, NOBODY got on the wrong side of ME in that car cos it was obvious I had nothing to lose! I actually missed it when it died and I got something more civilised, that car shaved 10 mins off my morning commute to work!
Of course these days plod would be all over it like flies on s**t, but in the early 70s nobody cared.
Steve