Going to meet friends at the Birmingham branch of the Classic Car Club. They're heading north in a beautiful Mercedes 350SL for a few days. I'm going to see them off and chat with the CCC guys who often help us at the magazine.
Nice gentle drive but overdrive has stopped working again. May be the faulty switch. Must check it out.
On the way home on the M6 the odometer rolled over to 00000 again. That's 200,000 recorded miles with one engine rebuild around 170,000.
Road being straight and traffic being light, I grabbed a snapshot of the speedo, only to discover the odometer had stopped at 00000! Even a significant mileage reading can make something go wrong!
THIS IS the story of life with a classic car. I drive a 1972 Jaguar XJ6 and write about it here. I'm Martyn Moore, former editor of Classic Cars magazine. This is a two-year story about the roller coaster ride of classic car ownership. The most recent entries come from a classic car rally in 2005, the last journey I made in the car before putting it into storage. Use links on the right for earlier entries.
