Some older people do drive like this for some reason, it's probably better than trying to master some horrid automated manual after 50 years with a clutch, and we tend to forget that older drivers will have been brought up on engines that didn't stall at the drop of a hat and you could easily get up to about 3rd gear and 20 mph on a trailing throttle on some.
However, i can still hear the sound of the huge electric drill screaming in protest echoing round Padstow circa 1972, it turned out to be a little old lady parking an Austin A35, never before or since have i heard a car engine reach such astonishing revs short of at a trackside.
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