I am going to bin the St. Christopher medallion attached to the dashboard of my Tourer and replace it with a post-it note saying WWRD - which stands for What Would Ruairidh Do.
This powerful mantra is to be used instead of my usual prayer 'perhaps that rattle/stagger etc. will go away if I ignore it'
Perhaps both of those items would be a good idea. My special had a St. Christopher medallion in the steering wheel centre when I bought it in 1971. I've always said that I'm not superstitious, but that medallion is still there.... anyone else have one of these period accessories on their car?
My Chuumy has an aged St Christopher held on to the dash by a really weak magnet. The 1927 penny has an even weaker magnet. Neither shows signs of wishing to escape. So they can stay.
Did anyone else spot the pic of Ruairidh on the last page of the latest Automobile magazine? He's on a 3 wheeler not an Austin but that beard is a dead giveaway
(29-08-2018, 04:43 PM)Stuart Giles Wrote: Perhaps both of those items would be a good idea. My special had a St. Christopher medallion in the steering wheel centre when I bought it in 1971. I've always said that I'm not superstitious, but that medallion is still there.... anyone else have one of these period accessories on their car?
Hi Barry, Couldn't find anything I liked, so I made the mirror stems from 3/8" mild steel round bar welded to 1/8" steel plate. I dressed the welds off and then had them chrome plated.
If I was doing them today, I'd probably make them from stainless steel to avoid the need for plating, Chroming seems to take forever these days (7 weeks to not be finished so far on the last batch I took in) and because of the environmental requirements for the nasty chemicals used it is expensive too.