TA Rolls On Toyo Tyres

If you’ve been into this scene for a long while and well into it, the chances are, you used to go to Doncaster every April for the National Sports & Custom Car Show, only ever simply known as ‘Donny’ and why the ISTS show is still called that – not for ‘Donington’. ISTS wanted some of the utter cool that imbued the Donny show!
It had the best cars and ice and nutters of all kinds in the one place. There is no longer a show like it for how interesting it was. From the amphetamine-driven perfection of artwork on a skinhead’s scooter to having a giggle at Elvis fans in converted custom transit vans.
But for me the Donny show was always the Live Action Arena and it was there that I first did a compere gig in front of an audience bigger than at an SPL contest. (I still love commentating those best of all though.) They would have the Fireforce jet funny car that I was in awe of. So bloody effing loud it made the windows bulge inwards and the children cry. The acts included Russ Swift, Craig ‘Ace’ Jones, Terry Grant, The Kangaroo Kid and the likes of Jakki Degg & Leilani to work with. It was heavenly fun and all made possible by Toyo Tyres.
 
For they were the sponsors of the Live Action Arena. Makers of the cognoscenti’s choice of rubberwear, they gave tyres to the nutters who would colour in the arena in black rubber in small circles about my carcass while I would stand there terrified, not acting. (What you do for money…) I would go nag with the Toyo chap (actually a heavy honcho and there to enjoy the action, too) and argue with their own stand’s man-on-the-mike through the arena PA. Sometimes it was even slightly funny.
I’ve been a Toyo fan ever since those early days when I got swagged some. It’s a bit more righteous now as I’m on my umpteenth set by choice but I’m delighted still to be one of Toyo’s mates in the press. So I just wanted to offer my pukka thank you to Toyo Tyre UK who have helped completely re-shoe my car again.
I have ridden on Toyos for over a decade now and find I can both hoon a bloody great heavy car all the time, everywhere and get a really long life out of them as well, which is bizarre. I know that Toyo have always been serious stalwarts of the motor sport scene and are huge players in slicky sticky sucky rubber, so I’m referring to the Proxes product on my Volvo. I used to love monstering show cars en route to shows at three figures and then finding the owners later to tease them about being eaten by a wardrobe.
All jocularity aside, for drivers of cars with powerful engines and huge ice payloads, like many Talk Audio people, Toyos offer a real advantage in my personal and now-deeply-biased-by-experience opinion.
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