Week Ten I’m Off To Have Meetings With Top Honchos
This week sees me off to visits with both Pioneer and the top chaps at Car Audio Security on the same day. We have plans to talk about And I have some really cool new toys to play with. Meanwhile, for sound off fans, the EMMA Sound off calendar is filling fast, with events up and down the country. I’ll pinch their news from Facebook and plop it here for you all as well. I am also getting bookings for the odd show and the Mini’s 55th Birthday is 2014 and I am honoured to have been asked to be the show presenter. I have a meeting to get to about that as well, to see what sort of thing they want. I fancy cooking up a wicked prize for the deepest Mini Geek of any generation by way of tough stage quiz and of course. A time honoured tradition, which is to see how many bodies you can cram into a Mini. It’s 28 in a BMW Mini and 23 in a classic by trained leotard-garbed gymnastic type ladies. I’d like to try with regular folks.
I am on my third issue of Fast Car magazine (#342) and enjoying it immensely. It’s been a trio of pages of one hero-item per page and I’ve also had a Las Vegas pictorial spread and am going to do a car story, then a feature about electronic countermeasures. One of my dearest chums works Traffic Division but I still maintain my fierce belief that if they are to point laser beams and remote track us by automated number plate readers with machines and cameras in vans and on sticks, then we are entitled to any legal reminder-of-what-you-are-doing machines to help stop us falling foul of inadvertent lack of attention to our behaviour at the wheel.
Oh and here’s a free one that REALLY pissed off my passive aggressive instructor on my speed awareness course. You can use it if you fall foul of four miles an hour over. We were asked the rhetorical question about whether we could easily judge a hundred feet. Mister Oh So Calm Veiled Threat was giving it that we could NOT judge that. So, I sparked up with, ‘Well, we have ALL been to the Natural History Museum on school trips as a kid and saw the amazing huge lifesize model Blue Whale. That’s a hundred feet exactly, right there. Never forget that.’ I got a murmur of approval from the class and a spasm of pure irritation from the teacher. I’d like to give the whole cash cow speed course system a damn spasm. In my opinion it is for low speed nicks that wouldn’t even have been DONE in the past which incidentally is openly admitted as such by my chum.
Alas, D Love seems to be gone from our airwaves as I heard a BUY YOUR NEW CAR WITH DAB type radio advert this morning that was simple and grown up, rather than cool and fun. I guess new car buyers are more farty-important.
I have new magical goop I have been sent, called Contralube 770, which was brought to my attention by a rabid fanatic for the stuff, one Ross ‘˜Bass Mechanic’ Waterhouse, so thanks for that, chap. It is a seriously clever material with some scary clever properties. I am going to sort out some more detail in a news story for that, too.
So, lots to do and behind as ever, including this being a bit too late for Ryan Hawtin’s Monday afternoon tea break, which I apologise for!
Adam Rayner On Line Editor