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!!

ttfn...Alistair


For me as a child in the 50s, but it wasn't classic cars in those days
(I don't think the term had been invented), it was vintage and PVT cars
that generated the interest. In the early 60s it was still those sort of
cars I lusted after but with a driving licence but little money I had to
be content with some very dubious machinery. The MOT test had been
introduced in 1960 but standards were very low in the early days.
Nevertheless scrap yards were filling up with large quantities of cars
over 10 years old, some of which didn't deserve to be there. Looking
back on that era I find it surprising that neither I nor any of my
friends made any attempt to rescue interesting cars we encountered in
scrap yards in the course of searching for spares for our much more
mundane transport.