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Dude you seem kinda combative and you’re making the mistake of thinking that I was addressing your point in general which I wasn’t.
I was relaying my experience whilst specifically addressing the points that “classic cars are expensive and unreliable”, stating that they needn’t be if you’re prepared to get your hands dirty treat them as a hobby.
I would have thought that treating transport as a hobby, pouring in needless hours of finessing and thought is a fairly safe thing to discuss on a cycling forum but maybe we should just all give up and go to Halfords or whatever.
Also, thanks for passing comment on my living situation of which you know precisely zero about. For clarity, I’ve run old cars in cities for 20 years and only had a garage for the last 3 months so I can take it to the next level and do some restoration as a side hustle.
Jackytwoshoes-
Your experience seems pretty similar to mine. I ran bangers for many years, started with an Austin A40. That era was a pleasure to work on aside from the rust.
Seems like a lot of the discussion here is circulating around older cars but not one's old enough to be classic just yet. I ran a G Wagon 460 and 2 R4's repairing them in the street for about 20 years they still wouldn't be classic for a few years.
I think the point that a lot of people would struggle to do the school run in a morris minor is fair enough. I did when I went to school, one day one of the kids in the back lent on the door handle, door opened and they fell out. Fortunately no one was hurt!
I do still run a 43 year old motorbike.
Airhead
You literally proved my point while acting like you weren't.
You moved out of London to get space, an expensive luxury that people who need to consider ULEZ don't have.
You have time to treat owning classic cars as a hobby.
As someone who used to drive 20k miles a year in a non fuel injected mini, I know what it takes to keep a car going, I've got the full Imperial tool set still in my garage to prove it.
Again, the point is, the average car owner isn't the sort of person to be able to do this instead of buying a ULEZ compliant car.