P 83 PLR

P 83 PLR

It was quite a lot of fun… And that is supposed to be what sports cars are about. Possibly the best thing about owning an G-F was sitting in a traffic jam, looking lorries squarely in the fuel tank, and smiling at people who always smiled back. Or maybe the day that I chanced on a motoring event in Pembrokeshire on holiday and followed it, to find that even more people were smiling at me, because they thought I was part of it…



It wasn’t the day I cheerily told my sister to drive in front in her Polo and I’d keep up: we were returning from an autumn holiday in the Lake District, and overnight the wind and rain had stripped the last of the leaves from the trees, leaving the sideroads a skid hazard, and my sister’s almost-legal cruise in a strong crosswind a three-hour white knuckle ride home…



While it was lovely with the hood down on a cold sunny day (with jacket, gloves and heater on max), it wasn’t actually a vastly rapid car in practice.



But it did prove to be a fine photographic prop, and I used it repeatedly, as Alexis Summers Mandi See and Paige Antonia demonstrate. I’ll add – it’s even more fun driving a sports car with a pretty woman sitting beside you, except, perhaps, for the woman. Sports cars aren’t the most comfortable of contraptions, and if you’re not having the fun of actually driving them, well… My wife, very sensibly, only ever sat in it about three times.



So here’s today’s challenge: please tell everyone about something that you bought for fun, and then ended up finding useful as a photographic prop, or accessory. It can be glamorous or mundane, and maybe the best examples will be things that were useful behind the scenes…