Interesting Cars
I bought the first MG V8 in Cardiff 1973. It had an aluminium Rover V8 engine of 3 litres and went very fast . . . in a straight line. I ran this car for 72,000 miles and a week after selling it spotted it again. It had been clocked back to 32,000 miles.
The Bentley was built in 1952 and was the last with a manual gearbox. I bought it in 1980 and actually sold it four years later for more than I'd paid to buy it, but in the meantime had spent a lot on bodywork maintenance.
I acquired a Wolseley 6/80 in the same period but soon sold that as I couldn't run two old cars and my 'normal' car.
This was my father's car and we drove it to Ulm in Germany to visit relatives. No one would embark on such a journey in such an unpowered car nowadays, but it did take my parents and me with our luggage across Europe in the 1950s.
It was possible to swap the delivery charge of a new Mercedes for an airline ticket to collect the car from the factory. We went together and the car was handed over on a carpeted floor after our factory visit seeing these being built. We drove home via Holland. UK number plates were fixed as soon as we were back home.
Electric Cars
I've been inspired by the environmental argument that to swap my handsome Jaguar for an EV would be good for my grandchildren even if not for neighbourhood friends who snort the gas from our exhausts. So, in September 2019 we collected the new small Tesla Model 3 from Heathrow.