Yesterday. Decide I have to get out or succumb to cabin fever after several weeks of computer slavery. It's a Morgan friendly 20 degree c day and an auto jumble abut 45 mins away looks like the right destination. However I choose the moment when everyone else decides to depart the city in a southerly direction. 45 minutes of stop-go and then open road and we can achieve cloth cap critical speed. A green E-type tears past also top down. Another big tail-back approaching the auto jumble. The fire-brigade is dousing the last of the flames on what was once a lovely Merc 270 SL by the side of the road. It is completely burnt-out. Mental note: Install fire extinguisher!

Nothing to tempt me at the auto jumble so I plot the scenic route home through Berndorf (where nice cutlery comes from) Alland and Heiligenkreuz. In between villages there are nice sweeping turns, a few good straights and some steep winding climbs. A red MGA and a red MGB are spotted and of course we acknowledge each others taste in cars. The trip takes an hour, then back in the garage, wash off the bugs and cabin fever is cured.


1968 4/4 1600
1950 Auster J5B
Kitfox S5 Outback
Jodel D9
1988 Peugeot 205 GTI 1.9