Week Forty In Which I’m Jealous & Conflicted

When I passed my test, first time, in the rain in a steamy car, I swear I passed by use of air vents and heating controls and asking the instructor to lean back for a moment so I could quickly wipe a side window. Back then, cars didn’t come with radios, or not all did and down the years my dad had to take a DAF Variomatic, a Peugeot 104 and a Simca GLS 1100 all to have Pioneer radios put in them by Neasden Electronics. It was I who added the graphic-EQ-BastardBooster from Harry Moss. Switch it ‘IN’ and a farting rasping roar would leap out of the AudioLine SuperSound 4in speakers. You got 128dB just off the cones. And I know, ‘cos my boss at dB Hire, a P.A. company, had one of those ‘Realistic’ SPL meters My mum got such a fright when I forgot to switch it ‘OUT’ one time, that she never dared use the radio in that car again. I felt guilty when I found out.
And as the years went on, we travelled through the halcyon days of all cars using DIN sizes and thence to the systems we see today, deeply embedded and often used to integrate for aftermarket speakers and amplification, rather than a headunit always being the option. And again, the new trend is to offer ever yet sexier on board electronics and use them to sell the cars. Yesterday as ever was, on the facing-contents page, possibly one of the priciest in LIVE magazine with The Mail On Sunday, was an advert for Nissan’s Qashqai that had a nice shot of their double DIN head unit and how the display looked with four cameras shown. It was ONLY about the cams and headunit.
So, posher kit is available OEM and we hafta keep up with it, so there’ll be some news from a couple of directions&;
Meanwhile Danielle Christie is an extra on Fast 6 which is filming in London right now and I keep getting tweets about odd hours she has to be there. It’s clear, she is way beyond excitedthey should keep her out front, as I’m sure it’ll show not that I’m well jel as hell or anything. How about a fatbloke extra in a Volvo? But I am thrilled rotten for her, all at once and proud as punch of the lass. Game as anything, bit coarse arahnd the edges, utterly gorgeous and petrol mad. What’s not to adore!?
Yet to get my new Yokohama tyres – W.drive V902s – fitted to the Daddybus but will let you know how they feel one I have them fitted. I’m still enjoying inhaling their new-hairy-rubber aroma as I drive around (perve.) Meanwhile, you can learn about the benefits (especially for heavily laden carshmmm) right here: link
And lastly, as this is like shooting fish in a barrel and I can’t not, I had an hysterically funny comment series on YouTube. They read as though from a more-than-confident person and from the syntax, I had pictured a specky and speckled keyboard warrior. He saw the ‘Swirl Police’ video at Waxstock with Michelle and Emily and along with some others, which were all featuring me with promo lasses, being a bit of an idiot, like I love to, he seemed to take exception to my being filmed with these girls.
He told me that I was awkward and shy and to at least be jolly, since I was fat. Then he offered me help and said he could give me advice on women and told me that none of these women were attracted to me and KNOW MY PLACE. I nearly died laughing, and went to see this clown. He turns out to be a HUGE body builder which would account for the confidence. Although he missed the fact that any of these girls might have an opinion and I am no oil painting and old enough to have fathered the lot of them (sorry, off into a daydream of all their mamas, there, not good&;) I wasn’t troubled. But I did go tell on him on Facebook by way of a status and the response was hysterically funny.
So, I’m thinking of going to his gym and want to know if any of you want to act your hearts out and come with and do the full ‘Rapper Entourage’ bit? But seriously, he said I was shy and awkward with girls. I nearly peed my pants.
I’ll go get on.
Adam Rayner On Line Editor