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Some of us like to make our presence — or our impending arrival — felt. Aurally, there's no better way to achieve this than by means of a fruity-sounding exhaust note. Attentionseeking of the basest (bassest?!) variety, some might argue.
Boy racer to the core, I have never stinted on having my cars equipped with exhausts producing the most mellifluous note possible, from a Ford Anglia 105E equipped with a then state-of-the-art Peco silencer (and an accompanying pipe exiting from under the passenger door), via sundry Alfa Romeos to Porsches. The first was a Carrera 3.2 kitted-out with a serpentine system I watched being createdhaving its silencer baffles reamed out with a poker. All the better to taunt cops on Brighton seafront with two-stroke blare. And, as a born-again biker, several of my Triumphs sported systems helping emphasise crushing victories in the traffic-light Grands Prix.
