Today I drove my car more carefully than...
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Moonpie21 said:
... a learner driver with a bootful of liquid nitroglycerin.
The reason being I was transporting my wife's entry to a work charity bake off competition. She had got over excited and baked some monstrosity that was too large for any container we had. I drove to our place of work on my own with this cake on a glass cake stand supported as best I could by coats to stop it sliding around in the rear passenger foot-well of my car.
Your inner MacGyver is weak. The reason being I was transporting my wife's entry to a work charity bake off competition. She had got over excited and baked some monstrosity that was too large for any container we had. I drove to our place of work on my own with this cake on a glass cake stand supported as best I could by coats to stop it sliding around in the rear passenger foot-well of my car.
Last time I made a cake for work, I didn't have anything to transport it in bar the plate it was on. So instead I used some straps and duct tape to suspend it from the passenger side seat which I had leaned back as far as possible. Basically set up like a pendulum to self correct for g-force. Cake arrived intact, no icing on car interior.
I also use this method for carrying Indian, but just using a carrier bag slung over the passenger seat's head rest.
No mean feat in my old Honda EP3This thread brings back a memory. About 10 years ago my mate got married about 40 miles up the A1 from where I live. He asked if I could pick the wedding cake up from a local baker and bring it up with me. This thing was quite a creation. A chocolate mountain with little climbers on it and little icing trees and snow and rock details. It was very tall and thin so not exactly made for car travel. Anyway, 46mpg in an E36 BMW 328. Never seen figures like it! I arrived a nervous wreck.
Berkshire bred said:
Sorry I don't normally do these posts but really, all of that to tell us you drove a cake somewhere.
I thought this was a motoring forum where we talked about speed, nice cars or at the very least something remotely interesting. Maybe I am expecting to much.
You mean like posting about when you were racing another car on the public road and driving like a tI thought this was a motoring forum where we talked about speed, nice cars or at the very least something remotely interesting. Maybe I am expecting to much.
t?Camelot1971 said:
Berkshire bred said:
Sorry I don't normally do these posts but really, all of that to tell us you drove a cake somewhere.
I thought this was a motoring forum where we talked about speed, nice cars or at the very least something remotely interesting. Maybe I am expecting to much.
You mean like posting about when you were racing another car on the public road and driving like a tI thought this was a motoring forum where we talked about speed, nice cars or at the very least something remotely interesting. Maybe I am expecting to much.
t?But seeing as you have, in that thread I quite clearly admitted that my driving was less than ideal but the main purpose of the thread was to see if the owner was on here out of curiosity. However atleast it was about 2 decent cars doing something driving enthusiast related, not a thread about crawling along the roads with various inane cargos on board.
When I was a student, I worked at a garden centre in the holidays. My first job was to deliver a luton bodied transit full of plants to their other garden center 20 miles away. No one told me that they had hung a load of fully planted hanging baskets up under the roof though. I was a typical 18yr old driver, so you can guess how it ended !
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 23 March 17:51
Kenny6868 said:
Nothing will beat the drive home with your 1 day old baby in the back! Especially if its your first child.
THIS is exactly what I was going to post.2am drive, all of 7 miles, but I managed to ensure no vehicle came within about 20ft of us.....
BTW what is this "takeaway run" people talk of? That is what you get deliveries for surely?
Just remembered the time I made ice cream cone cupcakes for the work bake off (which I won, may I add). Except, I couldn't find flat bottomed cones. So I bought pointy bottomed cones and made a contraption out of a grill pan and aluminium foil to hold them up. Worked a treat! Except then I realised how the fk do I get them to my office ...
Looked a bit like this, but much stter, and without the fancy metal contraption and instead lots of foil ...
Girlfriend with them on her lap, me in my Type R with its 19" alloys and low profile tyres - not exactly a smooth car ....
Only lost two on the way in!
k do I get them to my office ... Looked a bit like this, but much s
tter, and without the fancy metal contraption and instead lots of foil ...Girlfriend with them on her lap, me in my Type R with its 19" alloys and low profile tyres - not exactly a smooth car ....
Only lost two on the way in!
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