I love the 80th anniversary car Rex, When I was looking for the last car I bought I had the option of a green one, I'm not a fan of green cars, not because I don't like green, I actually love it but I have never had much luck with them! Someone once told me it was an unlucky colour and I swore never to have another one. Ludicrous I know!
When looking I found the 80th just a bit plain and uninspiring but over the years it has grown on me and it's elegant simplicity that you first see is in fact a stunningly made classic beauty which actually seems to have had the very best of the workforce making them! An example of not looking properly was the bonnet straps, I remember thinking" oh they could have done better there" but when you take the time to really look they are exquisitely made and fitted, follow the bonnet line perfectly and if straps were needed make the most functional sense. The dash.... :"bit dull and plain looking".... should have opened my eyes and seen the shear elegance of it! The car I was shown also had jenvey throttle bodies too, not sure if that was standard but don't think so!

I'm afraid I seem to be regressing back to the earlier models these days in that I now dribble over the 50's flat rads and TR engines with cycle guards, Something I would never have looked at in the past and I regret not buying that 80th anniversary car as it would have done a lot to have satisfied my nostalgic need for the older look yet giving that up to date reliability!