I thought I would give the cossie a good old clean and polish as it was looking well grubby and then nip down to the Essex RSOC night.

And it repays me by doing this!



Pulled back onto the motorway at South Mimms to meet up with Jimmy (Charlie Luciano), got about a couple of miles up the motorway and noticed that my rev counter flickering whenever i indicated, switched anything on etc.......

It sorted itself out for a couple of miles then started farting about again.

By this time i was approaching the Ilford junction so decided to turn back. About 1 mile it packed up completely. Alternator bolloxed!

Called the AA and after ages telling them to send a truck not a van as it had to be recovered, they said they had to send a van to assess. I told them I was an AA patrol myself and knew it wouldnt be repaired but they wouldnt have it! Phoned the operations centre, told them the score and they sent a truck straight out!

Got picked up within 30 minutes!

Oh well, looks like the trusty old ST24 will be winging its way up to national day instead!

Fuck fixing it, the engines wanked out anyway so I'll just take it off the road now for the winter and rebuild it.