Agree here too with DaveW & Peter.
Mike Hughes is right that you can have a lot of trouble free fun with old classic cars but I think you hit the point on the head that to be in that position you mostly need to have been involved with the restoration so that you know how it's been put together.
Apart from being nuts about Morgans all my life as much as there are many classic cars out there that I would like to have owned going for a modern Morgan was best for me because in the little free time I have available I can go and jump in it and drive it.
I think also, that like many of the people on here we all grew with our first cars being built in the 1970's or earlier so if you bought a car the only way you could afford to keep it on the road was to do it yourself. I learnt a lot from that about the basics of cars but a stream of company cars that were more modern has meant that my knowledge has never moved forward. Now they're so complicated everything gets done at the garage. Apart from routine maintenance the servicing and any repairs to my Morgan is going to be dealt with by somebody who has the knowledge as I haven't.
Our youngest son, aged 24, loves cars but despite my best efforts still hasn't got it in his head about the importance of checking things regularly such as tyres etc let alone opening the bonnet!
