Well, I'm in/from California and I've got both stringback and black leather
driving gloves. Absolutely essential for warmth (black) and grip (both) on a
slippery Derrington steering wheel.
Plus, a Big Healey is one car in which you can wear driving gloves and not look
like a total dork (at least, that's what I tell myself).
Lessee ... where's that tweed hat my sister gave me ...
bs
Alan Seigrist wrote:
> Hi All -
>
> Sorry guys, and shame on you John, you're from California so you should know
> the drill. Tweed caps and string back gloves was MG TC kit, if the MT
> editor knew his LBCs he'd know that.
>
> My BJ8 is from California, and the only thing the car ever had was either 1)
> a surfboard in the passenger seat or 2) a girl in a bikini in the passenger
> seat or 3) a surfboard in the passenger seat and a girl in a bikini in the
> back seat. I also had fantasies of a girl in a bikini in the passenger seat
> and a girl in a bikini in the back seat, but I am pretty sure that never
> happened. Mistress never figured into any of it, I wasn't married. Now
> that I'm married it's the wife in a bikini in the passenger seat.
>
> Never wore a tweed cap (BJ8 is too fast to keep it on) and only ever used
> string back gloves while driving my mountain bike!
>
> Alan
>
> '52 A90
> '53 BN1
> '59 Jag Mk IX
> '64 BJ8
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