Had My shoot for Max Power yesterday (Shhh, dont say it out loud) It was actually quiet a laugh. The PBMW one was all very professional. The photographer just took my keys, drove the car onto the runway and did his stuff for 3 hours. Hardly any driver involvement at all, but the Max P one was mostly with me driving the car or standing next to it (A few cheesy shoots of me doing my chave bit standing on my seats with my arms raised, so you've been warned
) Anyway everything was going great and i was stood there chatting to the feature writer whilst the photographer was doing his stuff with the engine running so he could take pitures of the screens, when i noticed green water gushing out of my engine bay. I rushed over and switched the engine off and poped the bonnet and my water tank was bubbling like a Volcano. We left the car to sit for an hour, then filled up the tank and switched the engine on and within a few munites it was bubling again. I rang my engine builder and he talked me through a few things to do, but it didn't solve the problem, so we had to stop shooting. They'd taken quiet a few pics by then (Some really impressive ones too ), so we decided to call it a day. I rang the AA to come and get me and explained to the dopey lady on the phone not to send a patrol man as an over heating engine could not be fixed in 5 minutes by the roadside so to send a truck straight away. She was being difficult at first, but i explained to her that she'd be wasting both my time and the patrol mans time by sending him as i was 100% positive he wouldn't be able to fix my car. She agreed in the end, so i sat there in the car waiting for my truck. An hour later, a patrol man turns up (by this time i was spitting feathers) He didn't even pop my bonnet when i explained what the problem with the car was and he said he had to radio for a truck, which meant another hour sitting in my car by the road side. Luckily, the guy in the truck was a diamond geezer, and we had a laugh, so the journey to take the car back to the garage wasn't too bad. I just hope they can fix the damn thing before the weekend so i can go to the surrey meet now.
