Engine Punk

From the outside, a little Boxenstop of delights The Boxenstop Museum is a little gem tucked away within walking distance of Tubingen's city centre. Tubingen is a very picturesque university town between the Schwabisch Alp and the Schwarzwald. The city is full of magnificent half-timbered architecture and lies on the banks of the River Neckar. Race bikes to be worshipped The Boxenstop was highly recommended to me by friends in the area. It's the private collection of Rainer and Ute Klink and is often the scene of social events, model railway exhibitions in the winter and classic car runs in the summer. I had tried to visit this small but perfectly museum before. However, the time available to me coincided with the museum's closing hours. On my latest visit I managed to find it open. I say small but it has some 80 cars and motorcycles on display. Although a private collection where space is at a premium, it's well laid out and doesn't feel cramped. BM...

Just after this, it hammered down It's already been a couple of weeks since the Hillclimb at Werrington Park but that's the summer months and long evenings for you - it's been a packed programme this year and no mistake. I took a little time out from my experiments in the garage/studio/laboratory to check out the sport on Sunday and also ask competitors how to get started. When I arrived it was dry and almost sunny but by the end of the meeting the temperature plummeted and we had some heavy rain. A couple of cars on slicks had just started runs and proceeded very cautiously up the hill to derisive remarks from some youngsters near me but their dad explained it was better to pootle up the hill than go off and damage something expensive. A couple of spactators were in just jeans and tee shirts and by the middle of the afternoon they appeared to me to be suffering from hypothermia. Still by the time I got home, it was dry and sunny with sign of rain south of Upton Cro...