The things they say...

“The old car as blue chips was reborn as the Classic Car…A diet of price rises and hyperbole in the 1980s spawned an ephemeral host of new old-car magazines, dedicated no longer to camshaft and rocker-cover but instead to growth potential and capital accumulation. The smell of burning fingers, and not the reek of old leather, characterises those post-boom years. The classic car fashion has now evaporated, like the magazines devoted to tracking it. The prices of old cars have reverted to parity with secondhand Sierras.” — John Patten, a satisfied owner of a Bristol 403, writing this year in The Spectator about the fact that antique cars are now once more for driving.