The Fashionable Driver

**Special Post** Top 10 things you need in your car for roadside emergencies **Special Post**

I know I know, this blog is supposed to be about fashion. However, I thought, as a service to the gals out there, I should do a special section on what tools you should always have in your car. I am tired of women not being able to perform simple repair tasks on their car. They are not that hard and they will save you time and money! So, this will be a woman’s emergency car kit guide.

Seriously though, I have had horrible trouble on the road before and been without the car tools I needed. It can also be very dangerous. So I am going to list some crucial tools ladies should never drive without. You should consider assembling this in a compact bundled kit:

1. Hand-Charged Flashlight- Murphy’s Law states that if it is going to happen it is going to happen at night. It is not fun to be on the side of some Texas chainsaw-massacre road in the middle of the night and have no flashlight. It will be necessary for all repairs. Should be hand-charged so that batteries are not an issue
2. Jumper Cables- This will be the most used item in your whole kit. These are used when your car (or another persons) has a dead battery and you need to restart it. This happens so often! For information as to what cables look like and how to restart a car/use jumper cables, click here.
3. Mace/Pepper Spray/Gun- whatever your favorite method of defense is, I recommend having it in your kit. It is “piece of mind.”
4. *Tire-Jack- This is what you use when you have a flat and need to change it for the spare. It is a device that allows you to lift one side of the vehicle so you can make changes to a tire. It is standard in almost every vehicle so it should already be there but make sure it hasn’t been removed. See owner’s manual for location and operation instructions.
5. *Tire-Iron- This is what you will use to get the lug nuts off your tire’s wheel. The lug nuts hold the wheel to the car. and will need to be released…probably the hardest part of changing a tire. Again, this will be included in your vehicle and should be near the Tire-Jack…it is often used as the device with which you will operate the Jack. Make sure this is still there.
6. Tire-Guage- This is a device which measures the pressure in a tire, usually in PSI (pounds per square inch). The max psi is given on the side of every tire.
7. Rain Poncho and Gloves- Murphy’s law again…
8. Tool Kit- Just a small set of tools always comes in handy. Screwdriver, several wrenches, pliers, etc.
9. Road Flares or Reflective Triangles-You will put these out in a staggered fashion down the road. Longer distances are better for highway. They allow cars to slow and use caution before driving near your emergency.
10. Duct-tape and Bungees- problem solver galore. If you can’t fix it…tape it and hold it together…or something like that.

*You don’t need to purchase these, they should already be in your car

If you’d rather just buy a pre-made kit, here is a great one that pretty much includes everything I just listed:

AAA 77 Piece Warrior Road Assistance Kit

I posted a photo of my Cadillac purse (or shoulder bag…whatever you want to call it) as an opening to this blog. Before I get carried away with other products I wanted to tell you more about it and where I got it. Here are some more photos:

The picture is a little misleading because on the left it is the front of the Cadillac purse for sale with silver trim whereas the back picture is the bronze/brown variation. The color combination really depends on your taste. The black leather and silver trim gives it a nice retro feel (kinda Rockabilly). After all, black paint and silver (chrome) was a very standard color combination on Cadillacs of the 50’s… And you thought they only came in pink!

Here is the Cadillac emblem which is located in the middle of the purse and is surely dazzling. Cadillacs scream class, this purse does likewise. Keep in mind that this is the brown leather/bronze trim combination. Black and Silver is also available.

The purse retails at about $52.00 and you can buy it by clicking here.

I found two very hot purses (one is a handbag and the other a clutch bag). They are truly to the height of fashion, but won’t run you that much money. Rather than follow fads and buy Gucci and Prada purses for ridiculous prices, I believe in starting my own trend and letting others follow. That is what this site is about. I will only list items which are fashionable and affordable. Don’t get suckered into believing that expensive products mean better quality (or fashion!). Cheap is not good either…but that leads us to “reasonable.” Which is what I think these products are.

So, on to the purses

The first purse is a clutch bag which comes in two colors (black or red). On both bags, there is a tan leather trim with Gucci Nylon body. The “SF” stands for Scuderia Ferrari which was the original name of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. For trivia, “Scuderia” means stable in Italian and “Ferrari” was the last name of the founder of the company: Enzo Ferrari.

The Ferrari clutch bag is about 10 inches long and 4.75 inches high. IT IS MADE BY PUMA so the quality is good and there is a 60 day warranty against any manufacture defect.

This clutch bag is 45.00 dollars and ships for free. It is a great deal that you should take advantage (considering the after holiday 70% off sale).

Click here for more info on the Puma Ferrari Clutch Bag

Now on to the handbag…

Here we have a full-size Ferrari purse (about 14 inches long and 10 inches high) with the same Gucci Nylon and leather combination. It is also by Puma and comes with the same quality and warranty as the previous clutch bag.

What I like about both of these bags is that you don’t have to own a Ferrari to have one.They are cute on their own accord and not ridiculously expensive.

This bag runs for $75.00 and, the last I checked, shipping was free!

Click here if you want to buy this bag.