Okay but having lived in Cambridge my whole life I must now add to this. Students of Cambridge have a long history of car pranks.
Following the austin seven on the roof of Senate House in ‘58, a group of students in ‘63 hung an Austin seven from the bridge of sighs
The dealer who’s shop it was from was offering it for £2 with no engine or gearbox.
They punted it down the canal and strung it up.
In ‘68 the prank was repeated with a reliant regal three wheeler, though less of a fanfare was made and I can’t find any photos of it. But despite supporting two cars, the bridge sustained no damage. Still stands today. (It was the bridge to connect the first accommodation block on the other side of the river to the campus buildings, and so it is joked that students sighed as they were dragged from their beds to their exams, much like Byron’s (also a Cambridge lad) assessment of the Ponte dei Sospiri in Venice that the prisoners would sigh at their last beautiful view of Venice before they were led to their cells).
Then in ‘85 another prank was pulled when a fiat was propped up on stilts in the cam
There’s not much info about who did this, though a good assumption is either students or workers from the science park.
In ‘89 the Cambridge car club took part in the annual raft race with a reliant robin
My dad was there. Did a lot of the photography for the raft race each year. Speaking of, his work’s newsletter article for the 1990 raft race (I thought I could find the ‘89 one and see if I could find any of his photos of it, but alas it’s twenty to five in the morning and I haven’t slept)
Anyway, back to cars. In 2013 they ‘recreated’ the original car on senate house prank. When I say recreated, I mean they recreated the crane and scaffold they used to get it up, and demonstrated how it worked with a platform instead of actually using senate house. Many of us were disappointed in that.
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