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A history of the sports car
and why woman prefer driving them with their tops down
Renting a Sports Car is very popular in Australia mainly due to the warm and sunny climate which favours being able to drive locally and interstate with the car top down. For this reason alone Sports Cars and Queensland go together like peaches and cream.
Many of ABC Integra's clients hire a Sports Car to celebrate that special occasion, for a family formal and indeed commercially Sports Cars are often offered as a reward for best performance within a staff incentive scheme. With ABC Integra you can hire a Sports Cars in Cairns and Brisbane, two of the most popular places for Sports Car rentals.
Sports Cars like the fast Mazda RX8, the BMW Z4 and the Mazda MX5 were in the past mainly rented my men but now there is an increasing number of woman who like to drive a high performance Sports Car with their tops down and the air flowing through their hair. What most folks don't know is that in Europe driving Sports Cars has been dominated by the female sex where for many years woman have experienced or achieved Sports Car emancipation.
Strange to say it was not always like that even in Europe, for if you go back into the 1920's Sports Cars were very much a male domain and Sports Car rentals were not even conceived of or even on the horizon in those days.
What I hear you cry, you actually couldn't rent a Sports Car in Europe years ago !! Indeed not, neither could you hire a Sports Car, let alone rent a Sports Car.
But that was all to change thanks to a well known but now unfortunately long forgotten socialite of that time, a certain Martha Longbottom. Now Martha Longbottom was a well known debutante of her era, coming from a wealthy family who lived in St Johns Wood in London. Known for her winsome but wild ways to her friends she became the wife of a somewhat dubious gambler and braggart, a certain, Ivor Biggun.
Ivor Biggun came from an impeccable English background having been educated at Eaton along with developing extensive business contacts at home and abroad. In deed it was an incident on one of his business trips to San Tropez with Martha that evinced the now famous but largely forgotton Martha Biggun to start the feminine Sports Car revolution.
Ivor Biggun was well known for being an extravagant man, one you could say who delighted in putting it around and to impress, (the ladies in particular), he also, apart from wine women and song, had a passion for fast cars, Sports Cars, as they would later be known.
Martha hated her husband Ivor Biggun"s bragging for he always had to brag how his was bigger or faster off the mark, a thing not considered in those days as being quite gentlemanly.
His latest possession and pride and joy was non less a 1929 Buggati a beautiful coupe and the latest in engine technology at that time in which Ivor would drive around San Tropez inviting all the socialites (specifically women) to jump on for the ride of their life. Naturally Martha was quite annoyed at her errant husbands activities not only because it had come to her attention and public knowledge that he was up to no good in the back of the Bugatti, but also, and here we reach the nub of the matter, it eclipsed her own social flirting.
Now Martha was no fool and a woman scorned as we all know is indeed a dangerous enemy so with one great flash of inspiration Martha came up with an idea that not only would stop other errant husbands from getting up to hankie panky in the back of a car, but also make her famous beyond the wildest dreams of her social set of the day.
Martha's grand inspiration was to modify a fast Sports Car car so that it could be made topless, but how could she with no engineering experience or excess of money, achieve such a feat. History has it that she returned to England to proposition an old friend, Sir Richard Flasher. Dick, as he liked to be called by his close friends listened to Martha's plight and saw a great opportunity to make money and not being short of a few bob he soon commissioned a local automobile engineering company to execute a prototype topless car. And that my friends is how the topless Sports Car revolution begun.
Why did it not happen in Australia I can hear you cry, well why not indeed but at that time Australia was still trying to come to grips with the wheel. Later years would indeed see Australia confirmed as a Sports Car nation extraordinaire but it had to evolve in it's own inimitable and long drawn out way. So thanks to Martha Longbottom and Sir Richard Flasher, the top up, get yer top down girl, Sports Car era began. And indeed Australia like the rest of the world is indebted to these two great entrepreneurs of the twenties.
About the Author.
The author is well known in literary circles for his modesty and the self effacing voluminous crap he inflicts on the public and therefore he prefers to remain anonymous.
However some details of his somewhat torrid and traumatic life are just emerging.
He was born in London during the second world war and from his unpublished autobiography he admits his survival was indeed an accident of fate.
According to his story he was born of two loving and caring parents who once privately confessed to neighbours that they had never seen such an ugly child before. As he was later to recount to a would be biographer, it is a truism that life indeed often hangs upon a thread and then he proudly goes to tell of the moment he came screaming into the world.
Take from his unpublished book "How to be Happy yet Married ( he couldn't finish it because he couldn't come up with a solution) he recounts the story of his birth in his own words as follows.
"The midwife recoiling in horror at seeing such an ugly child, whispered in my mothers ear, "smother him' and my mother slightly deaf in that ear recorded it as 'mother him" and so by virtue of my mothers hearing impediment, I lived to tell the tale. "
Alas poor boy being such an ugly child his school years were also doomed to be traumatic and his slowness to learn led his exasperated teacher one day to tap him firmly on the head to politely enquire, "Is there anyone really in there" ?
Having, like Einstein, a late spurt of learning in his teens the author entered the University of Life from whence he graduated but not without considerable pain ending up leaving his native country in his late years and now living and working in Australia. As he was to say in his autobiography. "They let me in because they said I was ugly enough to scare off the dingo's on Fraser Island, he recalls rather proudly".
Asked once what his hobbies were, he replied, principally survival plus a bit of reading he said unequivocally, especially Cosmology and Quantum Theory for which latter he has developed quite a fascination. A thoroughly humble yet modern man he admits that when reading about the wonders of the Universe, for him it raises more questions than answers.
In this context, asked what question above all really perplexes him most, he replied " well I guess it hasn't changed since all those years ago when I was at school he said smiling, " Is there someone really in there" ?
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