Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

There's some truth in that, I admit. You do come across as someone very knowledgable and passionate about cars. But some of your tales seem tall, and you stubbornly refuse to share any pics etc (which people here would be genuinely interested in) so its bound to give rise to some baiting. Anyway didn't I meet you properly over a beer at London Classic? You seem alright in real life!

Me in mates car a few weeks back, at Abbeville circuit. Good day out!

Am genuinely sorry, I apologise as I did not take it in the spirit that was intended. Maybe a hitting a raw nerve that I failed to become a military pilot, and that was the loss of a very major childhood dream. Yeah more tom cruise hieght I know.

All my past cars have been cars needing work, they are not the showroom examples that I ended up with. They were all dogs theat had past through a few owners and got massive prospective bills by garages and then ended up in my hands. Hence owning some very limited exotica. My father, a great influence in this, bought and sold cars as a side line. Lots of the localish dealers got to know that we would take on odd cars that didn't sell (Lancia Y10 Turbo) or were out of the ordinary. There were also repaired cars that were cat D insurance write offs, that was the '75 carrera. There were lots of European rusty cars that were MOT failures for rust. The shiney out side rotten underneath. Have run business importing (Lancia's) cars from South Africa to England.

What can I say, I like repairing things. It gives my ego a great feeling of success and accomplishment to repair things. It give me pleasure to help people as people have helped me for cups of tea and dinner and wish to pass it on.

Maybe my baking cakes is filling this role ATM as working on cars and bikes doesn't seem to be filling that hole in psyche.

Sorry again for acting like a bellend, I hope you can forgive me. I'll make cake.