Car Audio Fabricators STEP UP!

These are strange times and there have been some massive changes. One, I was on BBC Radio Essex with this morning talking about, which is drivers thinking they are Mad Max Rockatansky and that the apocalypse has happened.

Record speeding has been seen, with one stalwart in an Audi RS of some kind being clocked at 160mph.

My mate Simon with the 560bhp RS has been a little more enthusiastic about the place and tells me he saw a BMW M5 doing a full sideways drift of the entire roundabout at the edge of Watford.

And once more we are become a Nation of Shopkeepers. Our local chippy now delivers fruit and vegetables. Click and Collect or else delivery services for all sorts of smaller suppliers have been springing up all over. Even brand new services, where you hire a shopper to go the supermarket, so you don’t have to, if you have been told to stay inside and shield.

And since all the cars are either speeding like nutters or parked, there are no places open to get that Bluetooth added or a security upgrade for your car. Car fettlement shops are shut. But there has been a lot of stuff in the news about the lack of PPE for frontline NHS staff in care in the community, for one, along with other areas.

And so almost to a man and woman all over the UK and in the USA as well, there are folks that can make anything that have realised they can help. Thus the parts for the crucial visors are being 3D printed by them’s as has 3D printers. This is sometime Talk Audio Star Photographer Samuel Ellis, who has run his printers until one died underneath the load but is not stopping.

Sam is ‘Oop North’ and is making a rugged washable frame that can use a disposable film, like Over Head Projector stuff.

Meanwhile on the South Coast, Jeremy Owen, proprietor of Highdown Car Audio started making visors, too. He is using a blueprint from Jeremy Katz, an American who normally ponces up classic cars. https://www.jkautomotivedesigns.com/

Jeremy’s wife is a bit of a PR whizz and got into the action and kicked it up in the air with a fundraising effort.

Now, Jezza has other companies’ tooling all given over to cutting and making masks, along with him and they are turning out hundreds.

I am proud to call these people my friends.

You can help make these visors by paying for them to make more at £3 each, which covers postage and materials so that you too can be responsible for sending them to frontline workers.

Contribute here: https://highdowncaraudio.myshopify.com/products/ppe-shield-for-nhs-frontline-workers?fbclid=IwAR11cw17sVa781W6vw73t1X3SnhyymNw4iErBlGui58NI67YontNuzJZwog