Soft Top Hard Shoulder is a 1992 British comedy drama film directed by Stefan Schwartz, produced by Richard Holmes, written by and starring Peter Capaldi and also starring Elaine Collins (Capaldi's future wife), Frances Barber, Jeremy Northam, Phyllis Logan and Richard Wilson.

By chance, his Uncle Salvatore - the head of the Bellini family - is down in London for the Ice Cream awards, and happens across Gavin in an Italian restaurant.

Emboldened by the prospect of some much-needed cash, Gavin decides to drive up to Glasgow in his 1971 Triumph Herald, a car given to him by a Country & Western group for doing the graphics for their album.

With just the £30 given to him by his uncle, Gavin begins a road trip from London to Glasgow, picking up a mysterious female hitchhiker named Yvonne along the way.

They face numerous setbacks — Gavin loses his wallet, the car breaks down, they board the wrong bus, and others — before ultimately reaching their destination.