Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Trad prices ..versus owners dreams..

We need a flowchart, because all of this is super complex.

With any car, you should derive pleasure from looking at it, sitting in it, and driving it. If that means 200 miles a year, and it makes you happy, who cares?

You see on the TV on various programmes like Bangers & Cash, and Shed & Buried, the enormous variety in "collectors" and mindsets. Collectors get hung up on values, and that's just the way it is. But then you get all the fake stuff, the fake oil cans, the fake enamel signs. If you like the look of an enamel sign, does it matter if its fake? Railwayana is full of fake stuff. Prices are stupid. But people go full on at it. Go to an autojumble, witness the buying frenzy. It doesn't stay the same, it just morphs with time.

I was once taken to a vehicle hoard in North Yorkshire by an acquaintance. Round the back of an unassuming cottage were barns and large plastic greenhouses packed full of "ordinary" cars, in "ordinary" condition. There must have been 100, just standing there, not in the open, but close enough. Is there a point? No idea.

The one common feature is the sheep/herd mentality. Announce a fuel shortage and you get instant queues at filling stations, and then a fuel shortage. Announce classic cars are losing value and immediately the market gets flooded as those who are just "investors" try to offload. That just reduces values even more. It's laughable. Life is short. Enjoy what you have. Whatever it is. Loook at it, polish it, drive it, but ignore all the bullshit in the press, motoring or otherwise.