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 doesn't want to be Steve McQueen? 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.