Driving gloves. Anyone still wear these?

[Stanky]

My elderly former vicar neighbour uses some string-back driving gloves in his 2 year old Picasso, talk about rock n roll eh?

 

Will attempt picture next time I see them being deployed.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Got three pairs (I lose* stuff a lot) of these steptoe specials with rubber knobbly bits on em. The fiesta takes about 15 minutes before it even gets slightly warm and as I'm a tit I like to drive with the window open no matter the weather.

 

 

 

[Partridge]

My freezer gloves I use at work are just like that, minus the exposed fingers.

[xtriple]

I always have the window open as well. Aren't we an odd breed????

[MarvinsMom]

yes i have some gloves for driving, they are not expressly intended for driving, as they are normal everyday ones in black leather.

 

the reason for them is in the morning the leather steering wheel and gear knob are damn cold on my figures, just as much as the peeled cow seats has been cold on my behind......

[Partridge]

I always have the window open as well. Aren't we an odd breed????

So do I, even in winter. It has to be bloody, bloody, bloody cold for me to drive with it up. I'm not sure why but I love driving with the windows open and the heater on in Winter.

[xtriple]

So do I, even in winter. It has to be bloody, bloody, bloody cold for me to drive with it up. I'm not sure why but I love driving with the windows open and the heater on in Winter.

That's one of the reasons I like convertables, you get lovely sunny days in the winter, so roof off, heater on, bobble hat on and the windows down.

 

Lovely!

 

I've always put it down to being a biker first and foremost and a car driver second, though that has now changed (sob!).

[HillmanImp]

I always have the window open as well. Aren't we an odd breed????

 

I tend to store up my farts at work during the day so have to have the window open for the first half of my journey at least.

[lovejoy]

YES. and whoever put up that photo of Amber, I have never Heard of her,

but you are responsible for my massive heart attack, gloves, or no bloody gloves.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Camaro???????? that's a mopar prob 68-70 charger

[doobietoo]

So do I, even in winter. It has to be bloody, bloody, bloody cold for me to drive with it up. I'm not sure why but I love driving with the windows open and the heater on in Winter.

 

This... i dont care how cold it is, window has to be open about 6 inches goes back to my smoking days i think.... unless mrs D is in the car then i get " my necks cold" moan 

It has to be pouring down with rain sideways so its slapping you in the face to make me close the window when i am on my own, but i will still try the open a little bit trick if i can.

[brownnova]

Driving a convertible in the winter is good fun as long as you have gloves. I forgot to put them on recently, and blimey were my hands cold! I wear gloves in the modern too if I have had to de-ice the car. My hands ain't so good if they're cold. years of guitar playing...

[Partridge]

This... i dont care how cold it is, window has to be open about 6 inches goes back to my smoking days i think.... unless mrs D is in the car then i get " my necks cold" moan 

It has to be pouring down with rain sideways so its slapping you in the face to make me close the window when i am on my own, but i will still try the open a little bit trick if i can.

I'm just one of those annoying "fresh air people" who always need a window open in the house, even in the depths of Winter.

[Asimo]

 

After years and years of driving in leather gloves, I now use these. 

Seriously, they are perfect for driving, summer and winter. Their grippyness is good enough for any steering wheel, even those thin, shiny plastic things from the 1960s. They are warm and breathable and very comfortable.

I know they look shite but I really don't care and now dislike driving without them. They are washable and have a second life as work gloves.

I now buy them in bulk from an industrial supplies place for about £1 a pair.

[Craig the Princess]

Driving a convertible in the winter is good fun as long as you have gloves. I forgot to put them on recently, and blimey were my hands cold! I wear gloves in the modern too if I have had to de-ice the car. My hands ain't so good if they're cold. years of guitar playing...

Wasn't a problem for me in the bargeken, Shitpeas now dugong MGFs as the heater vents were perfect for keeping hands warm. The Saab 900 keeps your right hand warm but lets the left hand suffer.

[Rusty Pelican]

So do I, even in winter. It has to be bloody, bloody, bloody cold for me to drive with it up. I'm not sure why but I love driving with the windows open and the heater on in Winter.

Ditto , hate driving with the window fully closed 

[MikeKnight]

I have some nice deerskin leather ones with open backs in the Triumph GT6.

 

Because Triumph.

 

... and they were a gift, so I kinda have to.

[Guest Lord Sward]

I have a pair of kangaroo skin driving gloves, bought when I had my first MGF.  

[mouseflakes]

I don't wear driving gloves, but I have a pair of rubberised 'driving pants' for long journeys.

[overrun]

Camaro???????? that's a mopar prob 68-70 charger

Probably.

Let's be honest, this is one of those instances where it really doesn't matter.

[lovejoy]

Actually, it's a Cougar.

but I've no idea what the car is either....

[DSdriver]

I get given a pair of proper driving gloves most Christmases. Wear them once then lose them, or lose them straight away if the weather is mild and I don't need them straight away. Then when it gets cold I put on any random industrial gloves that I use when working.

At the other end of the scale, I did get the piss taken out of me years ago when aircon was virtually unheard of and I arrived at work wearing a thick woolly in the middle of a heat wave.

[Junkman]

These are mine:

 

 

Try to out-giffer them.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I don't wear driving gloves, but I bet MJ did. But on one hand.

[TRW]