At last, dry roads.

Finally after a month of cold weather and lingering frost and snow the temperature has moved towards 10º and the roads are dry. I took the Dino out for a blast around the M60. All was good, no misfires, no leaks just a howling V8 and lots of smiles - roll on the warmer weather

Brrrrrrr run the Dino up

It's getting even colder here in the UK. There has been about 6" of snow followed by freezing temperatures with -12º predicted for tonight (Jan 7th) in Manchester. As it was sunny out today and with the car being sat unused in freezing temperatures I ran it up until properly warm for about 30 minutes. Not ideal to run these engines on idle for so long as they don't warm up quick enough and the spark plugs get dirty. ad to dig my way into the garage after defrosting the padlocks with a hair-dryer. The Dino started perfectly once the fuel had filled the carbs so no problems - it would just be nice to actually drive it, but the snow and ice will probably be around for at least another week from now.

Ferrari 308 in the snow is a no go

It's been cold and snowy here in the UK for the past few weeks, so no chance for me to get the Dino out. We've had lots of frozen snow which thawed a few days ago then it went and snowed again. Maybe tomorrow...