Disclaimer. This is an example of the genre known unofficially as Auto-porn set in England, with English dialogue so if 'F words' and talk of big ends or crank shafts offend you, don't read it.
None of the Characters or corporations are based on real people, or corporations, any similarities are unintentional.
The 1071cc Mini Cooper.
"Geoffrey," she shouted, above the roar of the engine my 1071cc classic Mini Cooper S as we howled uphill on the old A6 between Kendal and Shap "Would you prefer a spring wedding."
"What?" I demanded, "Oh, I don't know, shut up a minute, I think it's misfiring."
"Geoffrey I do believe you love your car more than you love me!" she snapped.
"There!" I exclaimed, "It misfired again, did you feel it?"
"No!" she said, "I'm bored,"
"Boring more like, just shut up a moment," I said insensitively, "I'll check the plugs," and I pulled to the side of the road, "Hop out," I said as the tool box was trapped behind her seat.
"But it's raining!" she complained as she opened the door and stepped out onto the wet roadside verge, and as she stood there in the rain so I grabbed the plug spanner and changed the NGK BPR8ES spark plugs for new set of classic Champion N3's.
"Okey dokey," I chortled as I slammed the bonnet lid down after less than ten minutes work, but she was gone, disappeared.
I looked in both directions, she was nowhere to be seen, so I decided to pick her up on the way back.
The engine sounded beautiful after that, howling up those hills where the Lakes meet the Pennines and with the windscreen wipers clacking and the straight through exhaust booming complementing the gasping sounds of the twin SU carburettors it was a great feeling.
I had a bite to eat in Penrith, they wouldn't let me in the hotel restaurant there because I had oil on my shirt, and my tie and jacket, so I made do with a hot dog from a burger van and then I went back to Kendal again, and after cleaning the car in a car wash I went back to the Hotel.
"Hi!" I said cheerily, as I saw her watching TV.
"Oh, you're back?" she said disinterestedly, "I thought I heard you, I've been having sex with the Boy Scout troop at Peglers farm."
"Good, she revs cleanly to six five now," I added.
"Anal sex, hard, thrusting, pounding!" she said.
"But now the brakes are squealing," I explained.
"One in my ass, one in my mouth, one in," she said, "Geoffrey are you listening?"
"Yes cock up," I agreed, "But I don't know if it's the cooler plugs or removing your weight that is making the difference."
"Geoffrey, I have been having rough sex with strangers all." she paused, Major General Mcnaughton had joined us, with his sweet wife Marjory a really nice couple, she was about mothers age, he maybe ten years older, her hair a mass of permed silver curls matched what was left of his silver hair though that was de minimus as they say and he stood ramrod straight, the epitome of a retired British Army Officer.
"Ah, rough sex," he said, "And how's the Min Cooper young Palmer?"
"Misfiring sir," I suggested, "And when I fitted colder plugs Caroline went off to have rough sex with the boy scouts."
"Geoffrey!" Caroline protested.
"You should be careful," Marjory confided, "Rough sex splits rubbers, I had to have an abortion in Rhyl one summer didn't I darling."
"Blacks," he said by way of explanation.
"We didn't use rubbers!" Caroline exclaimed.
"Oh, well take the morning after pill dear," Marjory advised, "You don't want to take any chances."
"The thing is," I explained, "I don't know if it was the plugs or the car being so much lighter without Caroline, but she revved right up to six thousand five up the hills in third."
"What eighty miles an hour?" the Colonel exclaimed.
"Oh no she has a 4.11 diff not a 3.44," I replied, "But sixty plus!"
"Then give her another try!" he suggested.
"No way!" Caroline insisted, "I am never going to set foot in that horrible little car again!"
"Caroline!" I exclaimed, "How are you going to get home?"
"Train!" she insisted, "Then I can have rough sex with drunken scotch-men all the way to Paddington!"
"Euston," I corrected her.
"Look, Geoffrey," Marjory Mcnaughton interjected, with a nervous little laugh, "Why don't I go for a ride with Geoffrey while you two have sex or watch TV,"
"Well, yes!" I agreed immediately, "Thank you!"
"Geoffrey," Caroline suggested, "Would you seriously prefer going for a drive in your Mini to an evening of passion with me?" I knew very well it would be an evening of TV with barely a kiss.
"Well I'm ready when you are Mrs Mcnaughton," I suggested, "Perhaps you will need to change?"
She wore a padded blue jacket over a simple print dress with a single row of pearls, bare legged with wellington boots, "Oh this will be fine," she said, "You do have a heater I presume,"
"Yes, Yes of course," I agreed, you needed one to keep the engine cool in hot weather after I threw the cooling fan away to save 0.3 bhp.
"Then lead on Mr Palmer!" she exclaimed.
The Mini lurked in the shadows of the pub car park, red with a white roof and white number panels on doors and bonnet, and the three round lights along the front of the bonnet, and fifty years more or less had elapsed since she was built at BMC's Longbridge Birmingham plant.
I held the door for Marjory, she climbed into the bucket seat with surprising agility, and she fastened the four point rally style seat belts unaided which surprised me.
"Daddy had one of these," Gladys said shockingly, "The 1275,"
"Oh," I said.
"The Major and I had our first sex in the back seat," she said, "I learned to drive in it you see."
"Right?" I said as I started the engine, and headed out of Kendal.
"It always ran rough at 30 mph." she added.
"They had higher gearing than this, this has a Morris 1100 final drive," I assured her, "But the gearbox casing is MG Metro and the extension."
"Yes," she agreed, "The poor Major once got his bottom impaled on the gear lever in mid bonk," she remembered, "The standard models with no extension housing were much better for sex."
"Yes," I agreed but I was listening to the engine note, and as we came to the first of those big hills I floored the accelerator pedal in third gear and watched the rev counter needle like a hawk slowly it wound round from four thousand all the way to six thousand five hundred, "Sounds good!" I assured her.
And then suddenly she grabbed the gear lever, she twisted it and it flopped uselessly across the carpet towards her feet, "Oh sorry!" she giggled, and I had to pull over and stop.