Hagerty Insurance lists top 10 British cars to buy now
A poignant buyer's guide, this one, what with it being British Car Week and all. You didn't know? Don't feel too bad; neither did Jaguar E-type owner Dutch Mandel nor your author, proud keeper of a Triumph TR6.
Nevertheless, to celebrate an obscure week promoting what's becoming an obscure breed of car, our good friends at Hagerty Insurance tapped into their collector-car database and came up with a list of 10 British classics that they think are as inexpensive as they're ever going to be.
Got some ideas of your own? Let us know in the Comments section.
Hagerty's top 10 British cars to buy right now
Taking Ad Vantage (A Boys’ Own blog today)
Back in 1964 when Sean pushes the James Bond’s ejector seat button and the evil henchman shoots up and out through the Aston’s roof, presumably to land very badly. One of those seats may have come in very useful this morning while I was driving and Al was on gate duty.
‘Do I really have to go and open the gate?’
Press the red button. Kerpow!
‘You may as well, as you are now out in the street sitting on your arse beside the bloody thing.’
Today I need a Vantage or perhaps even a Vanquish, probably in burnished silver, with cream leather seats and the one with the 17 inch wheels. Why I hear you ask? He’s been away from Jan too long and needs to top up the sex appeal?
I bet it would work too. We are heading to Scourie across the North West Sutherland Moor in the far North West coast of Scotland and the A837 road is unbelievable great. It’s wide, by British standards, as smooth as silk and winds its way across Scourie Moor like a black ribbon, banking and sloping like a rally track, and I’ve got it all to myself. I’ve cranked up the car for the first time in ages and I love it. Richard Hammond would be been left gaping at my motoring skill as I throw it about like the Stig in a red Ferrari. Imagine how much more fabulous I’d have been had I had the gas-guzzling, roar-throated, mighty V12s under a Vanquish bonnet, sounding like a whole squadron of Merlin-powered Spitfires pounding away like a Dark Satanic Mill under the bonnet. Dar, dar, dar, dar, dut, dut, dut, dar…
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