Exhausting work!

Here I am, back at the bedside of my sickly beast, nursing her back to full health so she’s ready to roar around the sleepy streets of Somerset, ploughing grooves into the Tarmac on off-camber bends.

Yes, you see, even with the extra two inches of stature of this Godier Genoud six, shod with Bridgestone’s finest BT45s, I am often egged into pushing her so hard into bends by the turbine-smooth motor that the engine bars and exhausts are scarred by road surface interaction. So, work is needed, then.

This month I started to refit the exhaust and the first job was to clean) have had some very high quality copies made. They are made from stainless steel for longevity and chrome-plated for the right colour. I am a great fan of stainless fasteners, but I have never liked stainless exhausts, particularly downpipes, because they go yellow and cheaper grades even turn brown with the heat, which looks pants in my view. I like the blueish colour of chrome. At the time of writing they cost €1030 plus carriage, but are supposed to last. Given that I have scrunched them into the Tarmac on more than one occasion on both sides with my enthusiastic cornering, the stainless tube has paid dividends, as they would surely have rusted at the grazes, were they stock plated mild steel. While researching the current price of the downpipes I was heartened to see that they are now offering the legendary Devil six-into-one pipe for a very reasonable €995 plus postage. Trust me, the sound, looks and performance make it a very desirable ‘zorst’.