>It's wonderful what a few minutes with wind in your hair can do for a
>person's spirits.
I'll drink to that one. The Suzuki Jeep I've been driving around for the
last three weeks or so is on its way out. Can't stand the *%@!&() thing any
longer. Ever since I resumed control of it, my teeth (what's left of them)
have been shaken loose, while my brain (there's even less of that than my
teeth) has totally collapsed through vibration. Consequently, comfort, the
ability to think reasonably clearly and to eat my food instead of putting
it in a blender to 'mush' it forced me in search of a daily driver. I've
been sorely tempted to return to the wind in air scene and tried a number
of Rover Cabriolet's with either the 1400 twin cam or 1600 Honda power
units.
I don't want to see ANY more.
The wind in the hair is a wonderful feeling - but the chassis weave and
scuttle shake on the 14 odd cabrio's I've driven, remind me too strongly
that the Rover engineers probably based their designs on a none too rigid
MG TC. Why didn't they study a Spitfire, Herald or Vitesse convertible?
These were fairly rigid - and the Rover hasn't even got a swing axle at the
back end to bring a bit of wet weather interest into driving it.
What have I done?
Bought a nice little Renault Clio, previously owned by a paraplegic Vicar
which has an electric sliding sunroof, electric windows and electric
everything else. It's not an LBC - and never will be - but at least the
wind in my hair (or anywhere else - well, ALMOST anywhere else) is
literally at my finger tips.
The garlic onions hanging on the front bumper and 'central condemnation'
button just forward of the gear lever were the purchase clinchers.
Future submissions to the list may now have overtones of French in the
text.
John Macartney
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