What you buy is a tradition, a history, a talking point, a passion, a hobby, a heartache, a nuisance, a melodrama, a low , a high.........the list goes on
I still maintain my fleet of "old girls" - they all have their little foibles but I would part with none of 'em
1967 Series 2a Landrover
1967 Jaguar e-type roadster
1973 Morgan Plus 8
1977 Triumph Stag
1980 Morgan Plus 8
1988 Birkin S3
1989 Jaguar XJS coupe
2002 Porsche Boxster
The wet car is a Discovery or the wife's Peugeot 308, but where's the fun in them?
Call me a masochist, but that trembling moment of "will if fire / reverse/ engage/ stop............ - you get the idea, is what it is all about!
Maybe it's the petrol in our veins or the exhaust fumes in our lungs but I reckon the older you get, the more simple the pleasure becomes
