I’m tired of Christmas already.
Long lunches backed up by even longer dinners, cards from people you have been trying to forget, crook presents from your suppliers and even your secret back roads are full of happy caravaners, grey nomads, cars full of bikes, surfboards, outboard motors and vomiting children and other drivers who think the speed limit is something you take notice of.
So today as promised the Weekend Australian motoring section petrol head gift guide and chicken salad. These are not meant to be gifts for anyone else but you. As Phil King always tells me ‘there is no I in loser”.
OK. The copywriters over at the Australian Wine Club call it the Ford Falcon of reds. Just shows they don’t know much about cars. No the RedHeads Red Sedan Cabernet Blend 2012 is the Toyota Camry of wine and it’s only $21 a bottle. Who cares what it tastes like? It’s from South Australia but then so was Holden. Any wine maker that pays homage to metal maniacs deserves a free plug.
Who doesn’t want to be Steve McQueen? (Except he’s dead, but apart from that he is still the King of Cool.) Go to www.thekingofcool.com for the leather jacket he wore as Captain Virgil Hilts in his greatest ever role, The Great Escape. Now it’s not the same jacket, that would be pretty woofy by now, but it’s somewhat similar and it’s under a grand. Just think you can relive the moment when Bud Ekins stood in for Steve and tried to jump the barbed wire fence on a TT Special 650 Triumph that stood in for a BMW in his attempt to escape Colonel Wilhem Klink at Luftwaffe Stalag 13. Oh wait. Maybe that’s another German camp.
