I’d give anything to have that car back.” This always made me pause when I thought of selling. You know, when I was “X” (years old – typically a number starting with 2), I had a “Y” (often Alfa Romeo, Triumph, MG or some other two-seater sports car) and the dumbest thing I ever did was sell that car. But each time I thought of letting it go, I remembered the times some old white-haired guy had come up to me and said, “Wow, that’s a pretty car. When it wasn’t being driven or we’d moved to a house with limited garage space.
Then I was a collector, although with only one car, I don’t think it qualified as a “collection.”Ĭoming up on 50 years of ownership, have I ever been tempted to sell it? Yes, there were several times I thought I should sell it. I suspect I became a collector when I decided that come hell or high water, I wasn’t going to sell that car. At the time I didn’t know it was a collector car, it was my daily driver for the next five or six years. The handling was not like anything I’d ever driven. From the first minute I drove it I knew it was something special. It had less than three thousand miles on it. As I mention above, my first “collector” car was my 1969 Lotus Elan which I bought in 1971.
Many, many other cars have come and gone, but only two others genuinely fit into what I now claim as a complete, legitimate and genuine car “collection.”ĭo I think of myself as a car collector? While I think it depends on your definition, my opinion is that a collector is anyone with decent taste and lots of patience. Two hours later I owned the car and still have it.
Asking my friend Jeff Munger who ran the front of Munger Imports if I could drive it, before picking up my repaired Triumph Spitfire, ended up changing my life. Unbeknownst to me, I became a car collector came on a summer day in 1971 as I watched a yellow 1969 Lotus Elan being rolled onto the showroom at the local Renault/MG dealer. Okay, about my car “collection”: Separate from my vehicular toy like the Slingshot and the Audi daily driver (referred to as “Maggie’s Car”), I have a three car collection of all yellow cars. My workshop – with each yellow car getting its own bay.
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