On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:49:39 -0000, "Alistair Ross"
wrote:

While chatting at work (we are all petrol-heads) someone asked, "when did
the classic car bug bite". For me it was when invited to a relations wedding
(nightmare for a young lad) the best man took pity...Drove me back to the
reception in his 1932 MG J2......I was hooked, still am!!

Around 1963, I was a teenager hitch-hiking, and an elderly gent in an
old Aston Martin DB 2 gave me a lift. This elderly gent was so
doddery that he seemed to be barely in control of the car and I was
fearful for my life for the whole ride. But his enthusiasm and what
he told me about the car is probably what started me off.