Driving Gloves?

David Stroud posted:

Cory McCloskey posted:

Loving this thread!🤣

Here in Arizona, the insanely-low relative humidity (often 8% or so) makes my Nardi wheel as slippery as Teflon to my equally-dry hands, so I always wear gloves. I need that tacky grip.

They also look fanTAStic lying on the seat at a car show!

Here they are, featured in the handout I give to every valet, so as to avoid his mashing-down of my gearbox because he’s “driven everything,” and “knows what he’s doing.”

Also, I’ve included a link to some nice-looking, inexpensive gloves for those of you (not Stan😆) who might be on the fence and want to give ‘em a try... 

You definitely look like a blowhard in gloves at the wheel of a Taurus, but no one questions you when they see you in our cars...

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0...Fitm%2F112086866325p

 

Seems quite proper. Maybe you should use those to hold the microphone when you're near large musical instruments !. Sorry....couldn't resist, Cory.  :-) 

LOL David’s right!

Click the link for the fun...

https://youtu.be/LovWz0154KI

 

That was awesome !!!!   Great to see you rnjoy the moment.

I like this one ... too  duet

Aww, thanks, buddy! We have a lot of fun at our station -- no one's
stuffy, and they pretty much let us do whatever we want!

Cory McCloskey posted:

Loving this thread!🤣

Here in Arizona, the insanely-low relative humidity (often 8% or so) makes my Nardi wheel as slippery as Teflon to my equally-dry hands, so I always wear gloves. I need that tacky grip.

They also look fanTAStic lying on the seat at a car show!

Here they are, featured in the handout I give to every valet, so as to avoid his mashing-down of my gearbox because he’s “driven everything,” and “knows what he’s doing.”

Also, I’ve included a link to some nice-looking, inexpensive gloves for those of you (not Stan😆) who might be on the fence and want to give ‘em a try... 

You definitely look like a blowhard in gloves at the wheel of a Taurus, but no one questions you when they see you in our cars...

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0...Fitm%2F112086866325p

 

Funny, I've capitalized on the fact that not many people know my car is a replica.  I've parked three times now where there was valet parking.  And each time, I simply tell the valet, "you don't mind if I park it myself and keep the keys, right?"  And each time they let me.
One place, a winery, parked me up on the hardscape next to the main entry, and put cones around my car.  Now that was service.
Last month, I went to the California Mille car show, the event hosted by the Fairmont Hotel the day before the CA mille starts.  The organizers opened the gates to have me park inside.  I told them thank you, but I'll dump it in the garage.  My buddy was with me and questioned why I didn't park it inside the event.  I told him they will quickly learn the truth, and when they do, it will be embarrassing for everyone.

Cory, that's a classic video, your Mike got Tuba'd, glad you got it out!

Nice Ray, I guess the eyes are the first thing to go:-)

A famous car and driver whiz by at 2-3 seconds in this clip.  Its all made possible by the gloves

Yep, a legend in his own mind. 

Lane Anderson posted:

Yep, a legend in his own mind. 

Lol

RS-60 mark posted:

As a former long time sailboat racer and now long time fly fisher, I've learned through many scorched hands and arms that there is merit to gloves and long sleeved sun shirts.  Besides, I find the wheel is more comfortable with gloves for exactly the reason expressed by Dr. Porsche.

 

 

I grew up racing sailboats.   You learn constant concentration and continuous tactical decision making.  Flying Jr's, Hobie 16, Lightning, C-Scow, windsurfing, and they also had a fleet of O'Day Day sailers.

C-Scows were my favorite... Lots of do-hickeys to fiddle with like down-halls, boom vangs, out-hauls, Cunningham...  Hated the Flying Jr's

That got me thinking.  I learned to sail (I thought) on whatever the small training sailboats were on Lake Quinsigamond in Massachusetts.  Never wore gloves back then, even though I was in my 40's.  Nobody else did there, either.

Then I REALLY learned how to sail on a friend's 39 O'Day and the first thing he (Dana) handed me was a pair of sailing gloves.  Wore them constantly on that boat, and on my 18' Beetle-Cat just because, after just one hand scorching, you learned to "not leave the mooring without them".  

I honestly don't wear driving gloves in my cars, but I'm never hauling on lines in them either.

Dana and I sailed a lot, towards the end, as he had terminal Colon Cancer and I would take him out around Martha's Vineyard or off through Buzzard's Bay for a day sail on the O'Day (a wonderful boat to solo-sail), and he could sit and tell me what to do or what he was looking for on the water to find winds, or go below for a nap when he needed one.  He was a great teacher and I miss him a lot.    

We had circled the Vineyard, one time, and dipped in to Vineyard Haven to see what boats were there and were hard over towards the East Chop when, all of a sudden this really pretty woman with the most radiant smile I had ever seen stands up on her dock and yells, "Hey, DANA!  How ya Doin?"   Dana yells back, "Fine, Carley - Hangin in there!  Say Hi to my crew, Gordon!"  and Carley yells, "Hey, Gordon! - Take good care of my friend and don't let him work hard!"  and we sailed out into the sound towards Falmouth on the mainland.    "I don't know how many boats she knows", said Dana, with a twinkle in his eye, "But she always says Hi when she sees this one."  And that was my one and only time that I "met" the singer, Carley Simon.......

Cool story!

Cool story, indeed!

He probably thinks the story's about him.

You're So Vain! LOL

Nice name - Carley.  Has a certain elegance to it. 

edsnova posted:

He probably thinks the story's about him.

Boy, today, I needed a laugh from a clever line like that, Ed! 😆😂🤣

edsnova posted:

He probably thinks the story's about him.

Ed wins the internet for the entire week.

I met Dan Rather in a hall at CBS Studio in NYC what a pompous idiot   .               Same day  l met and got to talk with Toby Keith what a cool down to earth great America ~

 

 

Must be Driving Gloves Day today. Who knew?

They whiz by at 1:03 in this video.

Turn on closed captions or just listen to the German. It's pretty much about the visuals, anyway. And I kinda like the sound of "Drei hundert, sechs und fünfzig".

If nothing else, this should kick off a nice debate of just what 'Meissen Blue' is.

 

 

The Petrolicious vids are conceived and assembled almost as carefully as the cars they feature. Works of art about works of art, and the people who appreciate them. 

P.S. apologies to Gordon; I couldn't resist the urge. 

P.P.S. if Carly Simon knew my name it would be all you ever heard from me. 

That’s not Meissen blue.  That’s aquamarine.

There, I started it.

You sure it’s not “Bali Blue”?   

Or maybe “Speedster Blue” (there was such a color in ‘54 - ‘59).  

 

I was thinking maybe Fjord Green, which can look pretty blue in some light:

Aquamarine Blue:

Car in video:

The one thing I'm pretty sure of is that it ain't Meissen Blue - or at least what I've always seen called Meissen blue:

So why would this German Porsche fanatic think his car is Meissen Blue? Was something lost in translation?

 

He called it Meissen Blauw

 

Maybe he'd had some Meissen Bräu ?

 

That a German beer?

My brother had a Meissen Blue Speedster.  Looked a lot like Robin's Egg Blue, to me.

@Stan Galat, does she get a pass?

 

They look great......on a girl ;-)


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Driving gloves are a necessity once you get close to 300 h.p. in a Speedster.  It makes it easier to hold on for dear life...

Tom Blankinship posted:

They look great......on a girl ;-)


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Maybe Marty's embracing his feminine side.

I hope she decides, eventually, to lift those head rests up so they can be useful.

And at least she's not wearing white gloves like Jacquie Kennedy (and my Great Aunt Florence) wore.  Still trying to figure out what car she's in.

So, does she get a pass?  

Well, she's better looking than YOU, Marty, so, yes.

And especially if she gets a better-fitting pair of more fashionable driving gloves - Preferably, Italian.

Marty Grzynkowicz posted:

@Stan Galat, does she get a pass?

Tom Blankinship posted:

They look great......on a girl ;-)

 You beat me to it, Thomas.

A skirt is probably OK for her as well, Marty. Are you going to try one because it looks good on her?

@Gordon Nichols, She's in an Alfa GTV like Marty's.  Heck, maybe is IS Marty's.

Marty Grzynkowicz posted:

@Stan Galat, does she get a pass?

 

No Marty, you do not get a pass for cross-dressing and wearing a wig.

Does the tattoo on your shoulder say "Mom"?

eewwww Marty I'm tell'n  ~

DannyP posted:

Marty Grzynkowicz posted:

@Stan Galat, does she get a pass?

 

No Marty, you do not get a pass for cross-dressing and wearing a wig.

Does the tattoo on your shoulder say "Mom"?

Yes! its says "Danny's Mom" 

Sorry man you set it up for me. .  Where is Vince when we need him.  

Considering my mom is 83 and has never been to Chitown, and you've never been in my neck of the woods, well, yeah. Ha ha. 

Now if we went to school together it would be funny.

Vince likes beehives!