So this weekend is the CMI Annual Rally. Hurrah! However, the Mantis is still down at Chariots having passed the world’s most expensive MOT (inside joke) so I have jumped on a train from South Manchester to Lewes & picked the car up. So far so good. I need to be at Redline Sportscars around 1030 Saturday morning for the start of the day’s CMI rally agenda. Redline is a good three hours drive from Clayhill, & as I am only able to pick the car up after 1900, the cunning plan is to drive the car about halfway from Lewes, then get some zeds in a B&B in Shedfield. After an awesome breakfast, it will be back on the road first thing with a view to arriving at Redline in good time.

That was the plan. And it was a good plan. Splendid even. What actually happened however was that less than an hour in, the throttle cable snapped whilst the car was in the overtaking lane of the M27. After a few seconds wondering where the pedal had gone, realisation dawned & I managed to coast onto the hard shoulder. After registering the breakdown on The AA app, a local garage turned up to recover the car to Sainsbury’s car park which is where I am writing this at 0215 in the morning. Unbelievable. And as of 15 minutes ago, they are advising that they can’t get a recovery vehicle to me until between 0800 & 1000 later this morning (Saturday). That’s about 12 hours after I broke down.

The AA, you suck!!!