Photos at Maxey

Drove from Birmingham to photo shoot at Maxey. Road tested Mini 'Wildgoose' camper after photo session.

The 'wrap' party

Got horribly lost driving to Edgbaston for filming BBC's 20th Century Roadshow. Showed off in front of film crew with a dodgy handbrake turn in the car park. Filmed segment with a Fifties Mister Softee ice cream van and another with the gorgeous Jaguar E-type restored by Practical Classics magazine. Recording went well, best yet, probably.

Got lost again on way back to city centre hotel and led the lovely presenter Hilary Kay (Mercedes SLK) astray to boot.

Got drunk at the splendid 'wrap' party in the evening. Filming the last show in the series on the day the first one went out made for a happy coincidence. Didn't hear much of the programme, though. Still, I wasn't in it.

Testing time

Another late MoT test. I gain about a fortnight a year. It will all change when the computerised system kicks in.

The Jaguar sailed through with nothing worse than a blown numberplate light bulb, which I replaced in the test bay. They even did a non-essential emmisions test (cars as old as this require a visual test only) and told me it would have passed that too, easily, so the engine is in very good condition.

Filming at MK

Filmed prototype Mini hatchback for 20th Century Roadshow at Milton Keynes.

More door dents

Drove to Milton Keynes to film 20th Century Roadshow. Parked beside shopping centre and then went off with film crew to make the vintage Daimler feature. Filming went really well until the Daimler broke down on the A5. Suspected big end bearing failure!

Returned to the Jaguar to discover two huge dents in the nearside doors. Somebody must have really whacked it with their car doors to make dents like that. Deeply depressing.