Free the Ferrari 550

These are mean and vicious times for petrol heads everywhere and - unless we want to be forced to drive detoxed, low-fat, low-alcohol, low-salt electric shopping trolleys - we are going to have to fight for our rights. Just look at how the best driving roads in the area have been ruined by speed bumps and speed cameras. Roads where you could do 70 in third gear and blast round at serious speeds have suffered from the nimby, namby, not in my backwater, it might frighten the children/cats/dogs/pensioners brigade and been destroyed. For serious speed freaks this has gone too far and we must fight back or we will be forced to endure the strange world of motoring lite.

Let's get serious, let’s talk examples. Back in the 1970s there was a seriously good bit of road between Muswell Hill and East Barnet. In fact it was so serious that I did the four miles in four minutes in a three-litre Capri only for one of my mates to turn up in an E-type and do it in under three minutes. So what if he hit 120mph on the way, it was for real, it was racing in the streets. And now? Speed bumps every 50 yards, four mini roundabouts, two speed cameras and a road designed for grannies in aged Nissans doing 15mph. What next? Speed cameras in The Bishops Avenue to stop us trying to hit the magic ton on the run past chateau tasteless? The spoilsports have already stuck them up to stop us doing 90 through the Suburb!

It is time for motorists to stand up and be counted, time to destroy speed cameras wherever we see them, time to use a stolen JCB to dig up the speed humps and time to start racing in the streets again. Yes, let’s free the Ferrari 550 and get back to doing 150 on the North Circ. It might not make sense to the eco lobby, but it's a lot more fun than poncing along at 30 mph behind some dolphin-friendly lite car that's pre-programmed to take all the fun out of driving. Like the man said, the only thing better than driving a Ferrari at 70 is driving it at 170 and I believe we should all have the chance to find this out.