Driving Gloves

[jwt63]

Anybody have a good site for Driving Gloves?

>>> Edited by jwt63 on Friday 12th November 17:53

[ajb]

No, but i know where you can get a nice flat cap and pipe !

[TT Tim]

Don't they come free with Honda Civics?

[steve11]

[CiderwithCerbie]

Leave Grandad alone - just because he keeps the roof down in December.
Or is he just droping a xmas hint?

[Digga]

Come on now guys! Don't take the ps so.

I have a soft spot for driving gloves (as does Jonathan Ross, or so he says), and am frequently ridiculed for it.

Not for the fireproof Simpson racewear jobs that I wear on the track, but for my rather fetching string-back Stirling Moss type things that I occasionally wear when driving on the road. (Well if they're good enough for racing legends in the 1950's ...)

I got mine from the historic kit section (they call it Autostorica or something IIRC) of Grand Prix racewear.

Thing is, whether it's cold (and you must still have the roof down of course)the, or if it's hot and with the heat-soak from the engine (and the adrenaline) is getting your palms sweaty, the benefits are obvious. Well to me they are anyway.

[RichB]

This crops up frequently here, and as usual the tin-top brigade take the piss! There's nothing more pleasant at this time of the year to get the roof off and go for a blast in the winter sun I went for a blast yesterday morning and I'll tell you now, I wore me gloves to keep me hands warm! Rich...

[The Surveyor]

Try Holden

www.holden.co.uk

They do all sorts of accessories including driving gloves, coats, caps, pipe racks..

[ajb]

digga said:

I have a soft spot for driving gloves

Are you sure its not just a leather fetish ?



Edited to add: On a serious note Dunhill sell this kind of stuff, proper old school motoring accessories.

>> Edited by ajb on Thursday 11th November 13:46

[swissgriff500]

www.holden.co.uk/hvc-home.htm
goto "Motoring Clothing"
choose "Driving Gloves"

do not pull out your guns - I use gloves for the same reasons that Digga just described (with the roof nicely stored in the boot, obviously)...
cheers, ozren
PS I found the “Woodcote” model good value for money, just in case yo want to order

[Tyre Smoke]

ajb said:

digga said: I have a soft spot for driving gloves Are you sure its not just a leather fetish ?

He said soft spot not wet spot.

[bridgdav]

I asked last year....


HERE

[RichB]

And after getting the p155 taken, what did you buy?

[WildfireS3]

I got some from Halfords, they help a lot at night when the temperature is in single figures, with the roof off.

[tuscan_thunder]

www.demon-tweeks.co.uk

[simpo two]

If it's a Griffith, you can save money. One hot-air vent keeps your left hand warm, but there's no vent for your right hand. Hence, find someone with a LHD Griff, by a pair of gloves between you and share the cost.

[iainjones]

I get mine from Demon Tweeks (cos it's just down te road from me, alas i am forever associated with the boy racer brigade!), just get the cheap Sparco karting gloves, last a year or so before either the stitching goes or i wear thru the material.

Regards
Iain

[pzero64]

I find that the gear knob stays freezing for ages, and with no vents to point at my soft office hands, I’ve been wearing gloves for a few weeks now.

The Holden site looks good.

[RichB]

simpo two said:

If it's a Griffith, you can save money. One hot-air vent keeps your left hand warm, but there's no vent for your right hand. Hence, find someone with a LHD Griff, by a pair of gloves between you and share the cost.

Or buy a golf glove, I don't know if it's a left or a right 'cos I don't play (hence I've got a Griff not a Chimp ) but I know you only get one in a pair. Strange thing golf Rich...

[rbryant]

Yeah, golf gloves ... thin leather, tight fit. You buy them separately, but they come in left and right (master of stating the bleeding obvious). I have a left one already so for the price of one glove I get a pair!!
Anyone tried them for driving? The stringbacks look a bit 1950s MG to me.