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High power lithium jump starter
£99.99
Perfect for 12- volt vehicles, this diminutive jumper pack from Ring (product code RPPL300) will help start up to 6.0-litre petrol and 3.0-litre diesel engines as well as charge your electrical devices through its brace of USB outlets. It’s also got a handy built-in torch.
Charge it for three hours (with its supplied lead that plugs into any conventional USB socket) and it’ll provide several jumps through the easy-to-connect clips with a built-in reverse-polarity warning bulb.
The truly small size makes it easy to stow in your classic and tuck into tight engine bays when needed. The whole set-up packs down into a neat case, so it is always on hand. It has come to Classic Car Weekly’s aid several times already!
Young Driver Christmas gift vouchers
From £25
Christmas is looming ever closer, and if you’re looking for an unusual gift for a car-mad ten to seventeen-year-old, then Young Driver may have the answer.
The company runs driver training courses for children under the age of 17 and operates a small fleet of classics so that they can have a go in the sort of car that their grandfather – or even further back along the family tree – used to have.
These include an Austin Seven, a Morris Minor Traveller, and a Vauxhall FB VX 4/90. There’s also the option of a Nineties Dennis fire engine, just in case getting behind the whe
