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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.
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Yeah an old motorbike is a great way to enjoy ancient transport- can I guess from your username it’s a Beemer? I’m currently half looking for an old R100Rt or similar to use and improve
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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!
This exact thing happened to me when I was 5!
Jackytwoshoes
ChasnotRobert
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.