I love my wheels, man!

[27T]

I was out in my 2 litre Pinto powered 1955 Ford Anglia - it's stock looking, original paint, steel wheels and it's not lowered. A bit of a sleeper really.

Driving back along the A51 after taking my baby daughter to swimming lessons I was sat at the Stamford Bridge lights next to two young women in a Volvo C30. They looked over and one pointed and they started laughing. As the lights changed I put my foot down and left them behind. I slowed down and they caught up after about half a mile and tried to pass me. I just leaned on the gas and kept half a car length in front as the driver gave it her all.

At the Hoole roundabout I gave them a little wave and drove into Chester - they weren't laughing anymore and perhaps had started to suspect that the Volvo C30 is not quite as far up the automotive pecking order as they had thought.

Also fun to do this with lads in Corsas and Saxos. Childish but fun.

A friend's wife was genuinely horrified that I take DD2 out in the '55 - "but it's got no air bags". Well you have to turn them off for the baby anyway.

A lot of people believe that they are being environmentally responsible when buying new cars - case in point is the Prius. Not true - it takes more energy to make a new car than it takes to run it on the road for 50 years.
Don't forget that the batteries in the Prius need replacing after 5 years at a cost of £5000.

All of my cars are made mainly from recycled junk I pulled from scrapyards. The chassis for the 27T was pulled from a village pond and the body sat for 50 years in a dried up river bed in Arizona.

The 100e is, essentially, a rebodied rusted out Seirra from the 1980's.

However, none of it looks as "environmentally friendly" as a Prius and there is always the fact that I'm enjoying myself instead of being self righteously Green.