2011 Post02: Tosh.O, Thanksgiving and a Lamborghini Countach in Paris
(copied from my original BLOG - first posted January 20, 2011)
It is Wednesday night and I am trying to recover from laughter-inflicted stomach cramps courtesy of Tosh.O.
When I started my blog last week, I never thought I’d have hundreds of hits after only a few days. Hence, I am wondering which stories I can actually spread over the internet. So please be advised that I might change the odd name in order to protect the life of my family, shown here at a typical dinner.
The hungry little buggar – according to my mother, eating had always been my favourite pastime too – is my son. His mum, my wife, has a slight obsession with Thanksgiving dinners and is making an obvious attempt to pass it on to the offspring. Probably because Papa has made sure the automotive gene was injected at an early age. From the moment little Thunder – yes, there is a reason for this, his middle name – was born, I have tried to make his first word Lamborghini. He could say it before he was 3 months old. That, anyway, is my interpretation of those mumbling sounds coming from his mouth.
On my 12th birthday, I told my parents that I had made plans for the next 30 years of my life. ”Really?”, they asked, “So what exactly are you going to do?”. ”Finish school, find a job paying about $1,200 a month, buy a tent and live in it until I’m 42, eating nothing but oatmeal with milk and sugar. Then buy a Lamborghini Countach, a small piece of land and a double garage for the car and my bed.” I was always good at maths, so my plan made perfect sense.
***
I still have 4 years.
Having wished my whole life that my father had kept just one of his cars from the 60′s or 70′s, I now have the chance to do just that for my boy .
A ’99 8-Series I bought a couple of years ago is sitting in storage in Germany – much to my parents’ disapproval. ”Are you going to pay for the next 2 decades for something you don’t even know your son will be interested in?”. Well, yes. Maybe because I didn’t really get to drive it myself as I decided to move from London/England to Venice Beach/California within weeks of having it brought back to its former glory. Not to mention that my best friend Al got it up to 170 mph – while yours truly was asleep in the passenger seat.
In Belgium.
You guessed it, they DO NOT have the Autobahn. What they DO have is a speed limit.
Easily forgotten when you are driving something just asking to be pushed to the limit. Which is what my friend Hoehnes must have thought back in ’91 when I told him he could not scare me. Five minutes later I was transformed into a human backpack hanging on for dear life on the back of his Fireblade. Forced to brake the bike down from way over twice the allowed speed on a narrow country road in Northern Germany, he was balancing the Honda skilfully on its front wheel. All because of some dozy driver’s attempt to overtake another car coming towards us.
My friend had only just recovered from 3 months in hospital after a nasty motorcycle crash. Surprised? Neither was I…
tbc
***(I took this picture of a blue Countach 5000 S quattrovalvole in front of the GEORGE V hotel in Paris - shortly after breaking my neck in an unsuccessful attempt to somersault backwards off of my grandmother’s couch – stupid, brass-rimmed table)
Jens Lucking
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