Many thanks for the best wishes all, and obviously the quoted speed was exagerated as i was only doing 70, but the humber could obviously do 130 in overdive 4th no problems.
As you can imagine its all been a bit hectic here and sleepless but all good and everyone well.
Already the boy is expressing an interest in sh*t old cars and Le Mans which is nice.
And yes Dr S he has managed to absorb any spare funds for new cars for the forseeable.....