Post #15
adam b wrote:Stop them being burnt off in a fire ...I guess the others come from days when heating didn't exist in cars.
This. In the old days you *had* to have them because cars were open so your hands would freeze off. If you're a racing driver, it's because they're fireproof.
If you wear them and you're neither a racing driver or an Edwardian, you're a twat. That is all. Like one of those people who's at a £80 airfield trackday in a standard Civic in a full Sparco race suit and those stupid fairy ballerina plimsolls, trying to avoid walking on stones as it's so painful on his poor footsies.
The only time I would *ever* consider looking that much of a wally was if I had fuel lines running inside the car and risked actually being on fire, which I cannot imagine to be a pleasant experience.
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