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Hey ho, soon be time to start again. I promised myself that all sorts of work would get done on the big Triumph over the closed season and guess what? Nothing. Too damned cold and miserable. Even Bill (and he's as tough as old boots) has complained that it's been too cold to do anything much in his garage...
And hasn't it been a rough winter? Maybe the weather will oblige us over the summer, then. We had a meeting with the good people from Locke Park - planning this year's shows and all that - one of them mentioned that we always had good days for those - shame we had to chuck her in a skip...can't have the mockers put on things like that!
Just put the show diary entries together - we're going to be extra busy this year with the addition of the Morley St George's day celebrations to our burgeoning calendar. Never seem to get the time to go to anyone else's shows...except Tatton Park. You have got to go to that one!
Stir it up time - this is what I wrote in the last magazine -
Ho Ho Ho...so we got the White Christmas we all wanted (allegedly) - and we’ve still got it. I got a new perspective on the world only this morning, lying flat on my back in the snow after manfully going to the wife’s rescue - she couldn't get the car out of the drive and in my rush to demonstrate my superiority at such things I completely forgot about controlling my feet…
The problem with modern cars, whether they be front wheel, rear wheel or all wheel drive is that (a) they put down far too much power and (b) the tyres are far too wide, for snow, that is. Narrow wheels are much better at cutting through the stuff, and if you don’t have too much power, you don’t send the wheels into a mighty spin. As I discovered while getting completely stuck in Scotland just before Christmas.
Apparently this is all to do with global warming. As the Atlantic Ocean warms up, the gulf stream is turning back short of the UK, so our weather gets colder. Makes sense? OK, so what about the winters of 1963 and 1947??? And now we classic car owners are in the frame because we chuck more pollution into the atmosphere than modern cars. Don’t know about yours, but mine does about 500 miles a year. And we’re not being seduced by a scrappage allowance of umpty-nine thousand pounds so that we can run around in some Korean box on wheels, so we’re in trouble over that. The fact that building the Korean thing emitted far more carbon than one of our classics would in donkeys years doesn’t come into the equation.
It’s getting to the stage that if the authorities want to do something that seriously inconveniences us, like emptying the bins as and when they feel like it, all they have to do is play the “green” card and everything’s OK.
There - I feel better for sharing that with you!
Well, enjoy the season!
Malc 11/02/2010
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