I have to put my hands up and say, after four months at C&SC, I’ve yet to buy myself a classic car, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been looking.
Truth be told, having spent two years freelancing I’ve accrued a tax bill that sadly must take precedent over the four-wheeled money eaters that are the cars I love. At least I’ve got plenty of time to decide exactly what I want. And exactly what I want is something fun, frugal and cool.
There’s the obvious classic choice, of course, and that would appear to be the MGB.
Two of the boxes are well and truly ticked here. A little rear-wheel drive sports car can surely only ever be fun and oily-handed colleagues that know about these things tell me the B is easy to maintain and cheap to run.
Problem is, I’m not too sure it’s cool. This is something that seemed to be confirmed at Le Mans Classic, where there were rather a lot of them.
Next up on the wish list is a Porsche of any (frugal) persuasion, but ideally a 924S. At a glance it’s got everything, it's cool, has handling that makes it so and the much-needed frugality. Well, that’s how it appears, but dig deeper and the Porker starts to look like a pricy cut of meat.