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.
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.
