How it started

03 June 2007 by Maserati_Man

Savings are wonderful things, they mature and then many a rash male blows the lot on something that eats not only his savings, but a heap more money besides!

I, it would seem, am no exception to this rule.

I have received a very modest sum of money and straight away my dreams of a classic car for those hot days drift around in my head like clouds in the sky. In these dreams of course, the sky is always blue and the classic car is always trouble free. The reality is somewhat more down to earth.

Still, I've made the decision to buy something I've always wanted and no-one is going to talk me out of it. A trip to WH Smiths equips me with enough Classic monthlies to have deforested a small south American country.

Glasses on and I begin to read. After about an hour it becomes increasingly apparent that my modest sum really is a modest sum. All the cars that I drooled over as a boy are way to expensive for me. Aston Martin V8, E-Type Jag, Austin Healey 3000, the list is endless, but sadly the money isn't. I start to re-think and downgrade my wish list. I've always been a big fan of Italian cars but of course Maseratis, Ferraris and Lambo's are all well out of touch so I think Alfa or Fiat. There have been over the years many wonderful shaped Alfas and Fiats. They shouldn't be to expensive to maintain and even better they don't seem to be to expensive to buy initially either. I re-read my pile of magazines with a new zest.....

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