Ha ha .. yes! ..... literally speaking .... but then a Trabant would outlive you if you shut it in a controlled garage and never used it ... I was more thinking of the automotive equivalent of owning a woodland or listed building ... a sense of previous and future timescale of which you and your custodial input are just a snapshot (I feel it every day when I wander outside with my morning cuppa and look out over the moss ... unchanged for centuries and I've just spent a few days with my chainsaw making sure it's not overrun by 'volunteer' Sitkas so it has the chance to last another few 🙂). I wonder at what point between being the first owner of a factory-fresh Petersen or Morgan (as fresh as any Beemer or Dacia) and it being 100 years old, that sense of being part of an ongoing history kicks in?
Maybe in 500 years the odd century between an original and a Petersen will just be immaterial ... just not right now for me!🙂
K
