We were going to save this for the afternoon Time For Tea? slot but, frankly, we couldn't wait because it's just too cool. So it gets a bump to the morning shift and distraction for your mid-morning coffee break instead.
Mad, bad and dangerous to know? Yup!
It's another video from Petrolicious, the format for which you should now be familiar with. But even by the high standards of vehicles seen in these vids this is something a bit special because the featured owner this time around has a Stratos. Not a replica, not a kit but a proper Stratos, in Stradale spec.
His descriptions of the ownership and driving experience bear the scars of a typically turbulent relationship too, phrases like "it looks weird", "driving it is like having invasive surgery" and the noise being "a symphony of vaguely disastrous noises" not sounding like a whole lot of fun but always suffixed with a "but I love it" or "in an exhilarating way" to qualify the fact there's more love than hate. Tempered with a bit of fear along the way.
Mad as bat excrement and still as wild to look at as it always was, to hear first-hand what it's like to live with is a real insight into some proper car love. Clearly our owner is a man of unusual but exemplary taste too, if the BMW M1 and Alpine A110 in the background are also his.