After some forty years an ex-Met Police SP has been awaken from its slumbers and brought over to Robert Grinter’s workshop for a complete body-off restoration back to its original specification. It was pleasing to note this SP still retained its second gear hold device. It had suffered during its long hibernation, nevertheless it will be resurrected and there is a need to find a suitable Winkworth Bell that is missing.
Alan Mason soaring.ace@btinternet.com has a few of the second run of calendars remaining.
There has been much interest in the SP250 weathervane:-
The makers are prepared to hold the £99.20 price tag until end of January, and would it not make the ultimate statement for the top of the garage? Please note postage to mainland UK is included, however, for overseas buyers they will neither ship nor post. However, if you are an overseas buyer have it sent to me and I will on ship at cost. They will not be ready until end of January, one therefore needs to pre-order.
Notwithstanding what appears at first sight gloom and doom in the classic car field there were many highlights last year:- https://elink.clickdimensions.com/m/1/68498376/02-b22365-61c45b5f46154c45a5184521d0f66756/5/139/b62b5b11-03ee-450a-895e-145ca5640cea
Brian Smith the noted Daimler historian is writing yet another book, this time focused on the Daimler straight eights, pre and post war, so if have any leads etc. Brian would like to follow up.
Whilst many of us were tucking into our turkey Christmas dinners, spare a thought for those poor misguided souls whose ‘chickens came home to roost’ as they waited for three hours to get ‘hooked up’ to the battery charging system at a Motorway Service site.
These misguided ‘luvvies,’ who drive these modern milk floats in and around their London homes, had failed to take into account the adverse weather conditions then prevailing, which meant heating, lights and wipers! And combined with driving at motorway speeds meant their battery usage was all but depleted as they hit the services, less than 60 miles from their London homes!
Envy then sunk in at the services as those with normal aspirated vehicles were in and on their way within minutes, whilst those with EVs no doubt mulled over the folly of their ways. The upshot now is to try and off-load the liability. Mind you all this has created yet more pressure on the NHS as a new phenomenon has hit, it is now been tagged ‘Range Anxiety’ aka WIT WIT = Will It, Won’t It – will I make it to hook up in time! Mind you every cloud has a silver lining, for the psychology community at least, as these poor souls now seek counselling with their therapists.
Meanwhile, how about this as a thought? Research by Emissions Analytics (EA) has found that as exhausts get cleaner, tyres are rapidly replacing the tailpipe as major polluters. They produce 36mg of harmful particles per kilometre (whatever that is) apparently, which the EA claims is 1,850 times more than the average number of particles emitted by exhaust. The situation is made worse by the heavier EVs which stand to wear out tyres quicker. So how will that problem be tackled, one wonders, in the rush to go green?
Spotted at a gas station. You just cannot make it up! (Dr Nan) This picture tells a story in its own right.
Seems one of a fleet of service (breakdown) vehicles in the TESLA taskforce, does Musk know something we, as yet, don’t? No wonder there is Range Anxiety
Thought for the day:
Is it ignorance or apathy that’s destroying the world today?
I don’t know and don’t really care. (anon)
