In article <3C7B7D3F.5530A9F1@rave.ac.uk>, James Carruthers
<j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk> writes
>
>Michael Hargreave Mawson wrote:
>
>>
>> >Hardtop comes off this weekend!
>>
>> You can't be serious! (Or you can't be in the UK at the moment...)
>>
>
>Well I was very serious! <g> - but thanks in part to my british eccentricity -
>getting wet doesnt seem to matter any more - especially when you're driving
>around in a spit. I just keep thinking - this is the spirit - this is
>how it was
>meant to be driven.
Well, no. It was meant to be driven in blazing sunshine, with the top
down, by a darkly-handsome muscle-man with blow-dried hair, long
sideburns and a chunky gold chain-link bracelet. He'd have something
cool on the 8-track - probably the Bee-Gees - and a rather dim, but
decorative, blonde (five years his junior) in the passenger seat.
*That's* how '77 Spits were meant to be driven.
>Most of my friends think theirs something mentally wrong with me anyway - I may
>as well live up to it.....
You've already proved your insanity by buying a sports car whose
performance figures are similar to those of a shopping trolley.
>
>Today the weather seems to have brightened up - however hearing the
>rain lashing
>down last night kept me awake - I've never felt sorry for a car before.
God, I know what that feels like. I can almost hear her rusting as I
type.
> However
>I awoke this morning to find the seats pretty much bone dry - considering the
>amount of rain anyway.
That is a definition that Spitfire owners know all too well - "Bone dry:
adjectival phrase descriptive of the state of a driver's seat onto which
less than a quart of water has dripped over the past twelve hours"
>No I don't regret taking the hard top off at all (he says with a giant grin and
>wet trousers)
I found it useful to carry a towel, to go between the trousers and the
seat, this time last year. As long as your journey is a short one, and
you fold the towel into at least four, then you can avoid that
unpleasant damp feeling in the nether regions.
>
>Honestly their's nothing wrong with me.....
Well, nothing that the rest of us here can see wrong, anyway! <g>
ATB
--
Mike
'77 Inca Yellow Spitfire 1500
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