I am glad to see so many enjoy older cars and steam fairs.
I work with Classic cars and being Old School can fettle them properly,even rebuilding alternators and Dynamo's and the like... There are of course...dare I say it... Modern "classics", many very good cars were scrapped during the Govt scheme and we have lost some real good modernish cars from the 70/80 & 90's.
Just now I am almost finished an L plate Fiat Cinquecento....mmm you might say that's not old.....well it is 19 yrs old .... This was a great find by the owner and has needed about £400 to get it on the road, with a new radiator and heater rad etc and the owner said, do whatever it needs.....needless to say, he has not been ripped off and the radiator & matrix were changed due to the main rad splitting and the matrix was allied to that problem. It has been waxoyled and fully serviced and lubricated throughout even a new speedo cable was required......
So you see I love older cars..... Even Modern classics like the Cinq..... I can see in the future the Fiat Stilo and the low spec Citroen C2 as well as some others..... I run a Mazda Bongo converted into a Campervan, there are 40,000 of these grey imports in the UK.....yet only 3700 Cinquecento's and 100 Lada 4x4...bet you can think of many more that are now seldom seen like the Talbot Samba etc.......
I do play with A40/Herald/500 (the real ones)A35/A30/Oxford/RS1600 Mk3/Mini and more on a regular basis....... so much nicer than the modern rubbish....
I do service a few modern jobs for Classic customers.....did a Xsara Picasso Diesel yesterday..... plugged in the computer to check it out etc.... and they have gone away from the canister oil filters to the element types like on the old Mini etc.....but much much cleaner to change..... enough rambling.....