This article is classified "Real"
It seemed like a good idea at the time. In fact, looking back, it still
seems like a pretty good idea [1]. Picture the boredom of youth, or even
youths. Picture the boredom of youths sitting around drinking. Picture
the boredom of youths sitting around drinking, looking at the fire-break
running around the property, and thinking, "Wouldn't it be nice if...?"
Picture three of these youths getting a couple of hundred bucks together,
leafing through the paper, and buying the cheapest running car they could
find.
Now picture [2] the same lads, spending a weekend thrashing the car around
the track, running it into trees, and generally having a wow of a time as
is the want of lads (and lasses) of that age.
Thus was born the tradition of Boomshanka [3]. This first car, an old blue
HK Kingswood with a Teddybear screwed to the bonnet, was Christened
"Boomshanka I". Imaginatively, the next two cars, a Fiat 128 and a Holden
Torana respectively, were Christened "Boomshanka II" and "Boomshanka III".
Boomshanka IV was a Venetian Gondola, but that's another story.
[1] An empirical definition of "A Good Idea" is difficult to obtain. For
the purposes of this article, we will use the definition "Bloody stupid
and dangerous, but probably good fun if no one gets killed."
[2] Those of a more sensitive nature should refrain from picturing this
bit.
[3] The word means: "May the seed of your loin have fruit in the belly of
your woman."