It’s only money, oh deer…

I had a shock this morning when filling the Jeep up with petrol.

The petrol light was on, and currently the Jeep is the only car I’m using, so the tank needed filling to get me through the week, although with the trips I have planned it would actually need to be filled twice.

The 350z is sat in my garage not feeling very well. The other week on a late night dash back from Salisbury, I encountered an already dead deer on the road. At ~60mph I wasn’t going to avoid it as I saw it far too late. Thankfully the impact was somewhat offset by the cars position and so the only damage I suffered was to the back box of the exhaust. However, the car is loud anyway, so having no back box means that it is far too loud to even contemplate driving. I started it up the other day to run it to the local garage to we could get it up on the ramps and have a look underneath and it was embarrassingly loud. Still the local chavs seemed to approve. Apparently it is ‘wicked innit’.

I have bought a new back box off Ebay and am waiting to arrange delivery so that the car can get back on the road. A couple of people told me I should put a fancy sports exhaust on it, but subject to me agreeing the commercials with a new sponsor, the 350z will be sold to the race team and turned into a very fast (hopefully) and lightweight GT race car for use at the tail end of this season and the whole of 2009.

As I have to to go Bournemouth, Birmingham and London (twice) next week, I shall be using the train rather than driving the Jeep I think.

In other shock news, I have bought a pair of Skechers this morning. Rumours that I might be getting slightly trendy are strenuously denied.