Tag Archive | cars
Flying tyres…
Many years ago… So I’m driving in the Leeds inner ring road, I say “in” because is sunk down below ground level, four lanes of traffic, some tunnels, no central reservation to speak of, very busy. I’m approaching the longest of the tunnels on a slight decline into it at about 60mph with traffic coming [...]
Another thing about cars…
Windscreens. Why am I suddenly inundated with broken windscreens ? I have three high mileage cars in the business, all of them are Fords, this may be relevant. In the last two years we have had to replace three windscreens when mysterious cracks appeared in them and and one rear window which exploded when it [...]
How expensive can a piece of rubber be ?
I never realised just how silly my car looks when one of its back wheels has the temporary tyre fitted to it – let me tell you, it looks very silly, it looks like I’ve taken one of the wheels off the Peugeot 107 and put them on the Mondeo by mistake, I’ve had neighbours [...]
Britains Got Talent – and a flat tyre
So having built up the programme all through the week I settled down with my single bottle of Becks for the night to watch the most prestigious event of the British TV year, or at least the most prestigious event until another Simon Cowell inspired talent competition comes along – Simon Cowell is the new [...]
Don’t drive drunk
OK, the disclaimer comes first. First off, it was a long time ago Second, I was young and feckless Third, erm, everyone did it. Yes thats right, there was a time in this nations history when at 11pm of a Friday and Saturday night every single driver on the road would be driving tanked up [...]
A major bump
So after driving around in a banana shaped car for several months I was tired of constantly steering towards the middle of the road just to keep going straight and my friends were tiring of getting out of the car with clothing slashed to ribbons after glass would appear at random intervals from previously unknown [...]
A minor bump
So having been denied the opportunity to wrap my broken body around a lamp post in a very very fast Triumph Vitesse (and I had a friend who did just that in his Triumph Spitfire, terminally), I had to make do with plodding along in the Vanden Plas. It wasn’t so bad, I installed a [...]
Petrolheads – what’s it all about Alfie ?
The F1 Grand Prix season kicked off yesterday in Melbourne Australia, won apparently by Lewis Hamilton, whoopee-do. I watched the last five minutes of the qualifying session on Saturday and I watched the first five minutes of the actual race yesterday, and then I found something more exciting to do, like wait for the paint [...]
