To quote from another thread, "about as much use as a pair of driving gloves". I've started using driving gloves:
* They prolong the life of leather steering wheels by stopping the rot caused by sweaty hands.
* They do provide a better grip on the steering wheel, whatever it is made of.
Perhaps I'm alone in finding them useful.
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do you wear a flat cap as well....
I wear driving gloves/flat cap when driving my spider at dusk/night altho' only with the roof down.
I can think of no good reason to wear them in a normal car tho' :-)
JaB
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Agree with your points but, personally, I'd rather be Driving cars than Driving gloves which can prove a bit of a handful...:-)
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Definitely wear a flat cap. Plod assumes you're over 70, so you don't get pulled.
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Definitely wear a flat cap. Plod assumes you're over 70, so you don't get pulled.
I would assume that you came from Yorkshire!
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L'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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...I suppose they'd keep your hands warm when the a/c's on full blast.
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To quote from another thread, "about as much use as a pair of driving gloves". I've started using driving gloves: * They prolong the life of leather steering wheels by stopping the rot caused by sweaty hands. * They do provide a better grip on the steering wheel, whatever it is made of. Perhaps I'm alone in finding them useful.
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Don't they make your hands sweat in summer? Hope you wash them as often as you wash your socks!
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...easier to wash than the steering wheel...
How often do you wash your steering wheel, Escargot? What sort of a wash? 40 degrees or 60? (And how do you get it into the washing machine?)
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Depends on the gloves.
I have an old pair of kid gloves left over from my days as an RAF trainee pilot. On my release the corporal looked at the state of the gloves and said I could keep them.
I've managed to clean them since then and although their main military purpose is fire resistance, they do also stick to the steering wheel very well. And the more your hands, err, glow, the better they stick.
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Do you have to have a Formula 1 type steering wheel to be able to get out of the car after your journey?
Or just slip your hands out of the gloves?...:-)
It's basically the same as holding a golf club - it feels more comfortable and stable wearing a glove (or gloves) than bare hands.
Buyt to be honest I've never worn driving gloves for years and that was my own fault.
I put them on the roof while I opened the doors (didn't have central locking on that particular car) to let the passengers get in and then drove off......
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The last person I saw wearing driving gloves was Jason King on the tele!
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I had a client who regularly wore them when driving - usually other people's cars. He fell foul of a stupid error though and got caught.
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when i first passed my test, a "dear" old auntie bought me a pair of Paddy Hopkirk ones for christmas,i had to humour her and wear them that evening whilst i drove her home, they were useless! i couldn't get a ciggy out of the packet, ended up shakin them all over, couldn't get a match out, and spilt those as well! and to cap it all when she asked me "whats burning" i discovered that i had melted a hole in the index an middle finger, luckily i didn't feel anything, except the sharp edge of her tongue, she was not best pleased!!.
billy.
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Not only smoking is difficult, Billy. You try typing a text message with driving gloves on. Almost dangerous!
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My driving gloves match my car coat beautifully.
V
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I accept that wearing gloves was a good idea in winter in the days when steering wheels were hard shiny affairs which got very cold after a night outdoors, but in this day and age of soft-feel and leather-covered steering wheels driving gloves are just for poseurs. (Ducks down below dashboard to avoid the retaliatory flak!)
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When I was younger and somewhat stupid, not only did I wear driving gloves, but I also had a green stripe running fore and aft on my souped up mini. Together these accessories added at least 10 mph to my top speed and knovked 5 seconds off my 0 to 60 time :)
Roger in Spain
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LOL
But don't knock it until you've tried it. The comparison with golfing gloves is a good one.
Blazing sunshine, sunroof and windows open, balding head -- cap needed. Alternative to flat cap -- baseball cap. Interesting choice, that.
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You also need goggles for when you fold the aero-screen down, and a sort of brownish tweedy scarf. An RAF type moustache helps too, likewise those round wing mirrors with air-flow extensions on the front.
And when you park, you don't put the hood up, just a tonneau with a shaped bit to fit over the 24" steering wheel.
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and a sort of brownish tweedy scarf.
Actually, I think you'll find it's a white silk scarf, complete with coat hanger extenstion :-)
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If you have that "fashionable" accessory - an aluminium gear topped gearlever- you need gloves in winter if you park your car outside at night- or leave skin on it.
I don't and don't.
madf
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When I was younger and
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I had a pair of Jack Brabham open backed kangaroo skin driving gloves, with lots of litle perforations, in of course BRG. They certainly made steering the 1600E with its heavy steering a little easier.
Strange, I cannot find them anymore.
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I'm sure that wearing gloves alters the driving experience, encourages you to take it easy, feed the wheel etc, and adopt the manner of a 'chap' out on a Sunday run in an XK120 Jaguar, similar to Terry Thomas or that bloke in Genevieve. Oh yes, to complete the illusion a briar pipe clenched between the teeth would help concentrate the mind. Seriously though they could be the key to counteracting the encroaching tide of road rage, traffic cameras and stress that is driving in the 21st century.
Any impatience displayed by horn blowing from drivers folling in their Vectra/Mondeo could be dissipated by encouraging them to pass with a regal wave of a gloved hand and a smile for the poor exec rushing along. The transformation could work wonders against the other scourge of the highway, young Maxwell Power in his hotted up Saxo.
Quite how I will affect this transformation in a 2001 Punto is another question, but I shall investigate in my local Halfords tomorrow morning for said items. Hopefully not cheap PVC ones, suede would fit the bill perfectly.
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I shall investigate in my local Halfords tomorrow morning for said items. Hopefully not cheap PVC ones, suede would fit the bill perfectly.
I believe that the relevant legislation is the Street Credibility Act of 1935, which requires that a gentleman driver may not wear suede gloves unless also attired in a camel-hair coat and a deerstalker hat
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