Getting older rocker Sir Rod Stewart put down his microphone and picked up a shovel to assist workmen fill potholes on a highway close to his residence residence in Essex, England.

The Seventies intercourse image, whose hits appropriately embrace a tune referred to as “Laborious Highway”, was seen on an Instagram submit shoveling chunks of gravel from the mattress of a pickup truck, claiming that the highway was so unhealthy that he couldn’t drive his supercar down it. First world issues, eh?

“I’m repairing the road the place I like as a result of nobody might be bothered to do it,” Rod says to the digicam. “It’s been like this for ages. Persons are smashing their automobiles up and the opposite day there was an ambulance with a burst tire. My Ferrari can’t undergo her in any respect, so me and the boys thought we’d do it ourselves.”

Stewart, who famously requested followers in the event that they thought he was attractive in track whereas prancing round in a leopard print leggings in his youthful days, seems to be virtually as eye-catching right here, however solely as a result of he’s sporting a high-viz jacket as he bemoans the thousands and thousands of kilos being spent on the M11 motorway just a few miles away.

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However Essex Depend Council, whose accountability it’s to maintain the highway in good situation, was lower than impressed with Sir Rod’s DIY antics. “You’ll be able to’t take issues into your personal fingers,” cupboard member Lee Scott informed BBC Information. “All highway repairs must be completed to an expert degree or the particular person doing it may turn out to be chargeable for any issues or accidents,” he added.

We’re unsure precisely what sort of Ferrari Sir Rod can’t get down the highway, however a current story in The Each day Mail confirmed him getting right into a white F8 Tributo. The ex-Faces frontman is a self-confessed automobile nut with an unbelievable again catalogue of fascinating supercars. In accordance with GQ, Stewart spent the spoils from his earliest hits on a Marcos GT within the Sixties earlier than progressing to a Lamborghini Miura after topping the charts with Maggie Might in 1971.

Newer Lamborghinis which have handed although his fingers embrace a Diablo and a Gallardo Spyder, however we hear promoting a 2003 Enzo was one in every of his greatest regrets as they’re now price thousands and thousands. Nonetheless, he had worse luck as a Porsche proprietor. Stewart was carjacked in Hollywood within the early Eighties by a thief who relieved him of his Turbo Carrera – after which couldn’t begin the automobile so needed to get Stewart to indicate him how at gunpoint.