I agree, my friend was into hiis classic Ferrari's and made serious money as the models came into favour, but spent oceans of money keeping them on the road, well in his garage most of the time......always a balancing act with Ferrari's are they a future classic and will they in time rise in value, enough to compensate for the ongoing investment..........many are nice furntiture ornaments. He eventually gave up on them and now is into his classic Bentley's another very large money pit.
The MST is still just a Ford Escort, maybe good fun, but everytime you park it up, you will wonder when you come back to it ,will it still be there...........or on the back of a low loader on it's way to Essex....it will be on every wibeboys radar and as such is highy nickable .
Where is Howard when we need him..? Howard`s Ferrari ownership experience, seemed to promote a more reliable picture..? Perhaps that like so many machines that may be primarilly bought for their investment value, Ferraris suffer more than most from lack of use leading to all sorts of issues in time...? I suspect no matter what the marque, finding a reasonable balance between usage and maintenance costs as well as personal ideals of preservation of an icon or asset, can be a bit of a plate spinning game...and as such a game played at all levels of personal financial ability, from the utilitarian mundanemobile up to whatever might be the most valuable vehicle in the world today...?
"Just a Ford Escort", seems to be on the verge of being a tad snooty....? Though feel exactly the same way about Ford Capri`s that my friend gets all hot and sweaty over, he having restored a few as his hobby, his current project is a Brooklands Capri restoration..... Whereas my preferred vehicle from that era was ever the 911... As ever each to their own.. (-:
BTW John, think those Escort stealing wide boys may all be in their mid sixties and beyond...Now wide grandpa`s perhaps ? (-:
