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Proper driving requires a pair of these. Mine were a bit of an emergency purchase when I turned up a Brands for a test day without my old race boots, and wearing shoes which meant I could only press two pedals at a time. According to Tom Onslow-Cole (who was in the shop at the same time) they're worth half a second a lap. Lying weasel.
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I've tried race boots, they're nice, but I've done all my driving in trainers and unless I actually go racing I most likely will continue to.
The problem was because I was working on the car I was in boots to keep my feet warm and the soles on my boots are shit.
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I've tried race boots, they're nice, but I've done all my driving in trainers and unless I actually go racing I most likely will continue to.
The problem was because I was working on the car I was in boots to keep my feet warm and the soles on my boots are shit.
These are what you need
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I hope this isn't a repost. It turns out Paul Walker had a pretty good taste in cars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=U189SwhPXKI
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As the exhaust 'puff',
as it pulls away from a roundabout, shows
you could probably have run a small scooter on its emissions.I have one other one around here;
slowly decomposing and supporting an abundance of lowlife,
moss, lichens,
parked up on the no-mans land
between someones back garden and the alley.(In the days before the Council put up barriers
at all the entrances to the alleys to prevent fly-tipping).How on earth do you get one of those through the MOT?
Spare parts?
I can imagine the guy at GSF laughing back down the line. -
Bit of Ozzie touring car action:
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Stolen pic from facebook but here is the back of our Lola. Car was owned by Steve McQueen for a while and starred in the film 'Le Mans', car was originally green before it was stripped to the shell, rebuilt and repainted, all work done by my father.
Here's the marcos, also rebuilt by my father
This is the Sunbeam tiger, this thing got written off in around 2007(ish?) (and I'm not talking scraped along the side, I think it rolled about 8 or 9 times?) Car has since been re-built by my father, looks stunning, will try and dig out some pictures.
Here's the Sunbeam Lister tiger. I haven't seen this car for a few years as I believe it's now in the US, fairly sure this is the actual car but they all look exactly the same!
We've also got a fast-back stang, fun cup beetle. I think somewhere in the house we've got a whole album of the cars dad has rebuilt, he's done about 5 shelby cobras (real ones!) a handful of ferraris, astons, tons of hot-rods and possibly a bugatti IIRC
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Also interesting story behind this little mini if I can remember all the details!
Was before I was born but Dad had this car as a little run-about, was pretty rusted out (ha, rusty mini, who would have thought?). Dad used to work until the early hours of the morning sometimes and on one particular night he was driving home and went over a hump-back bridge and somebody had the same idea at the same time, the other car was a big Mercedes estate and it pretty much crippled the mini, half the roof was hanging off, the engine bay was crushed and someone went into the back of him straight after. Dad really loved this car so decided to bring it back to life, it took him over a year of his free time and this is how it look after;
(it wasn't a cooper, just a standard little mini that he'd made to look like a cooper, he wasn't allowed into some shows with it because they said it was stock - ha!)
Crappy picture but here it is after it was just finished, I think it was done in the late 80s?
Car came to a bit of a rotten ending tbh which dad still hasn't got over! We took the car to a show in around 1995ish on the Sunday where it won a concourse prize. Monday morning at around 6am we heard a almighty bang and went outside to find the whole right-hand side of the car missing and someone had driven off. It was pretty obvious who had done it as it had chunks of yellow and blue metal!
Also never setting foot in a Mini again. My friend had recently done a restoration on a beautiful original cooper. We took it for a spin at Rutland water which has some beautiful country lanes on the way back. my friend was going a little too fast around a righthand bend and stupidly slammed on the brakes. The rear end of the car came round to the left and we hit the ditch and rolled the car over a hedge and down the other side where there was a hill waiting for us.. the car went over another 3 or so times and all I can remember was seeing grass, sky, grass, sky, grass, sky when looking through the wind-screen. We went over a concrete fence post which came through the roof so far it smashed a hole in the centre floor-pan. We both got out completely un hurt all except from a small graze I had on my shoulder from where the concrete post hit it. I got out of the car and threw up and punched my mate in the face, I've never got back in a mini and I probably never will! Old mini's have a certain 'smell' and I feel physically sick anytime I smell it, never again!
This was summer 2011 I believe, I've concealed it from any family member for that long. Didn't really feel the need for a bollocking, I had learn't my lesson from it. That night after I got home I sat down for a meal with my family, I felt as if I should be dead after what had just happened. Moral of the story? Do all your braking BEFORE the corner.
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What felt like a sinking pedal turned out to be squidgy soles on my boots... I could only LOL otherwise I'd have cried.