>>>I still have my 1968 MG B roadster that I bought new in France. It ran when I parked it in 1984 but I let it sit for 3 years while I bummed around the world.
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>LOL. I have friends in the UK who found a cobwebbed MG parked up in the disused garage of a vacant flat they bought. Turned out the car was bought by a doting US millionaire father for his son attending University in the UK in the late '50s. The son drove around in his MG like a star, entertaining the local women and having a blast until it was time to return home to a society wedding and life of prestige- at which point the car was parked up and abandoned for 40 years. That's wealth for you. Are you one of those? ;-)

As the saying goes "Not hardly". I do plead guilty to driving like a star, entertaining my wife and having a blast. As I remember the only divided highway in France was about 200m before you got to the border crossing at Saarbrucken where you got on "the autobahn" (there weren't many of them). The only speed limit on the autobahn then that I know of was right in Frankfurt- 150 kph- why bother. All the other roads in France were 2 lanes or 3 lanes with a center, for whoever got in if first, suicide lane. But, I was young and "bullet proof" in those days.
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>>>BTW I turned it over to a shipping company at Rhine-Main for shipment back to the US.
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>That's actually funnier than you expect! Will explain one day.... - J