Fair Weather Friends
OK, yes, BritBox understands that Summer has come and gone. Fall foliage tours will soon beckon, and the steamy days of anxiously watching the Smiths temperature gauge will be eclipsed by the whisper of Yokohamas slicing through crisp Autumn leaves. The next page of the calendar promises us that some of the "best" driving weather of the year is almost at hand. And yet for many, this is only the final sprint before embracing the cool slumber of Winter storage: time to tuck in the car cover and let the sporty car go to sleep and dream of Spring.
What does "the driving season" mean? When it comes to creating a toasty interior environment, the heater in a Triumph may be somewhat amusing, but British sports cars were designed to reduce a trade deficit, and to salute HRH the Queen; not to coddle or pamper the weak and puny. Sometimes you have to Suffer For Motoring. If Motoring calls you, what will be your reply? "It's a little chilly today, with some overcast..." Motoring will never buy that crap! Motoring does not recognize the term "the driving season"; Motoring thinks that those words have something to do with golf.
Put up that leaky convertible top, crank up that anemic heater, rev up that willing motor, and drive that car. Experience a whole new patchwork quilt of machine-shop smells and busy sounds; smells and sounds you may not have noticed when your roof was blue and the wind was humming in your ears.
When we close our eyes we imagine ourselves flying down sunny two-lane blacktop, with the sky for a hat and our noses filled with the smell of cut alfalfa. But every cold damp drive with the top up, on the short bleak days when the road salt has washed away, connects us to the heart of these noble machines; to the smell, sound, and life of an aging but willing companion.
BritBox suggests that you wait for a really lousy day, and get closer to your British car.
What does "the driving season" mean? When it comes to creating a toasty interior environment, the heater in a Triumph may be somewhat amusing, but British sports cars were designed to reduce a trade deficit, and to salute HRH the Queen; not to coddle or pamper the weak and puny. Sometimes you have to Suffer For Motoring. If Motoring calls you, what will be your reply? "It's a little chilly today, with some overcast..." Motoring will never buy that crap! Motoring does not recognize the term "the driving season"; Motoring thinks that those words have something to do with golf.
Put up that leaky convertible top, crank up that anemic heater, rev up that willing motor, and drive that car. Experience a whole new patchwork quilt of machine-shop smells and busy sounds; smells and sounds you may not have noticed when your roof was blue and the wind was humming in your ears.
When we close our eyes we imagine ourselves flying down sunny two-lane blacktop, with the sky for a hat and our noses filled with the smell of cut alfalfa. But every cold damp drive with the top up, on the short bleak days when the road salt has washed away, connects us to the heart of these noble machines; to the smell, sound, and life of an aging but willing companion.
BritBox suggests that you wait for a really lousy day, and get closer to your British car.
posted by Michael Grant Smith at 8:18 PM
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