In praise of British Sporting Cars

Feed our passion.

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:15:25 +0200

New advert for "Not Top Gear" on C.5 (sorry Tiff). Strapline runs something like "Petrolheads, feed your passion".
Question it - if you're a petrolhead, what feeds yours?
As fun as it is to watch VBH's grin go into fifth gear and hear her giggle of delight erupt mid-slide, it's still not enough 4 me.
What does it for me is the bark of rapidly opening Webers, or flicking out of overdrive, late breaking for a 3rd gear corner, or the kickdown (sad but true I do own one autobox, albeit trying to control a rocketship) on a rapid overtake when the only reason you're risking it is knowing that the power in reserve is rather more than adequate.
What about your petrolhead passion? Is it the creak of well worn leather seats in your aging Aston? The mix of smells of wood, petrol and leather in a Mk2? Or are your passions more voyeristic, admiring the curves of a D-type? Join the queue ...

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Running at half-throttle!

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:59:57 +0200

I do like speed. And I've done a few speedy things on the ground and in the air. And for a good long journey, a big engine that's unstrained at the top end of "motorway speeds" (however you interpret that ) is just the thing. Even my earliest Scimitar would cruise at "adequate" speeds with my foot barely resting on the throttle, egging me on to squeeze just a bit more to give the old thing some exercise and see the repmobile tail huggers shrink in the rear view mirror. But this article talks of doing 230 mph at half throttle. Yes, 230!!. Imagine squeezing that throttle a little bit more. Good luck to them. hehehe.

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Do Vicars drive real cars?

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:08:59 +0200

These are three of my four present cars. I'm a vicar who continues to follow his lifelong passion to enjoy owning and driving fast cars. A recent PistonHeads article here reminded me how rare it is that the general public percieve vicars as people with real life interests and passions - contrary to popular opinion, we don't undergo a personality bypass as soon as we're ordained!

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