“YOUR TURN TO DRIVE”

“Hmmm!” he said. “I was wondering when my turn would come…”

I’ve got quite a few old friends and acquaintances dotted around the country who have had some of their youthful moments — and not always their finest ones — captured in print over the years. Old mate Brett Guthrie has read them all, remembered many of them vividly, and worried about the inevitable day when he’d become subject matter over things he’d rather forget. Brett was the driver of the ’57 Ford Customline who drove us all from home-town Wanganui to Athletic Park in Wellington to see the Fleetwood Mac concert in March 1980, and his three-wide pass on the Wellington two-lane motorway at 80-odd miles per hour with the