I'm with Wayne and Randall;
I grew up driving pre-war Bentleys and Alvis' (illegally, I might add, but
with my dad's approval). Pre war machinery like that really gets me going
and I wish so much that I could afford one now. Not to replace the TR, you
understand.
Although I'm in the lower echelons of investment vehicles, I too look at my
collector vehicles as pieces of art that give me a thrill every time I
walk past them in the garage or every time I look at a picture of them on the
wall. People can continue to criticise me for not using them enough to
warrant keeping them, but really (with the exception of my family) they are
what keeps me happy. I'd be miserable without my TR3A or my nearly
rally-prepped '65 Volvo PV544 Sport. Still, better that the Speed Six-owning
chap only
use his car one or two weekends a year than it finish up in someone's
collection who never uses it and probably doesn't look at it, might even live
in a different country from where it's kept. At least by driving it
occasionally, others will get pleasure from seeing it. I'm not a 'look at me'
type
with my cars, but I do like the fact that both of them put smiles on the
faces of the general public, as opposed to anger and jealousy that more
exotic modern stuff might generate. That counts me as being selfless and not
selfish; I can make people happy.
So, perhaps your mate with the Speed Six might like to just consider
himself, as I do, as curator of an astonishing piece of industrial history; I
am
sure no-one else would be a better preserver of that wonderful artifact.
Tim Dyer, Kings Creek Trees and Ornamentals
427 Kings Creek Road, RR3
Ashton, ON K0A 1B0
Canada
Phone/fax: 613 253 4126 Website: _www.kingscreektrees.com_
(http://www.kingscreektrees.com/)
Proud member of Landscape Ontario (the Ontario association for
horticulture professionals), the Canadian Nursery and Landscape Association,
the
Ottawa Botanical Garden Society, the Carleton Place Horticultural Society and
the Christmas Tree Farmers of Ontario
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