Sir David Jason - A Life of Laughter. Stafford Hildred
baby, David and Rob were approaching down a long corridor. Suddenly, David brushed past Rob and shouted, ‘Now we’ll see whose baby this is!’
It took Maureen and Rob a moment, but they did quickly realise this was a typical David White laugh. The nurse was not so experienced in this curiously quirky sense of humour and almost dropped the baby.
Only Fools and Horses hero Derek Trotter would have been deeply ashamed of David White if he had been around to see the young electrician buy his first car. He already had a share in the Mini van of course, a symbol of the struggling business partnership, but that did not quite fit the bill for the particular purpose the enthusiastic amateur actor had in mind for his motor.
‘I was desperate to get into cars,’ said David, ‘because I knew it was the only way to pull the birds. You can’t do it with your motorbike. So I went down to Colindale and bought a great, gleaming Ford Zephyr Six. It looked a lovely car but I was really, really ripped off. It was the most clapped out thing in the world. My real passion was for motorbikes and I sold my bike for £60 to buy the car and I got really ripped off on that as well.
‘I think I must be the most ripped off person in the world. The car salesman was a typical Boycie. He must have seen me coming a mile off. I fell in love with the Zephyr as soon as I saw it which must have been my first mistake. It looked fabulous and it would be worth a fortune now. It was a lovely car except that, of course, it was completely clapped out. But when you are getting your first car you know how it is. You’re so keen to get behind the wheel you don’t spend long enough looking underneath the bonnet.
‘But I soon learned an important and very expensive lesson. The gearbox was full of sawdust and so was the back axle, and the engine was totally knackered. I seemed to spend my entire life under the bonnet tinkering with the engine trying to get the blasted thing to go. I don’t think I ever had time to try to pick up any girls in the car. It never went for long enough without grinding to a halt.’
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