What did you do today?

[LynehamHerc]

It's all about your first sentence.

They're also CGT free if I remember correctly but that might depend on how they are owned.

[Eddie Honda]

It's all about your first sentence.

They're also CGT free if I remember correctly but that might depend on how they are owned.

So what's different about today compared to 1989/90 classic car madness?

[Scruffy Bodger]

Very true. Iirc E type prices have only just got back to those levels now?

[DodgeRover]

Anyone want a dash cam for the price of postage? Kiltox left it in the van vut doesn't want it back.
It's un used.

Yes please Paul if I'm not too late

[paulplom]

Pm your details.

[LynehamHerc]

It's all about your first sentence.

They're also CGT free if I remember correctly but that might depend on how they are owned.

So what's different about today compared to 1989/90 classic car madness?

QE and a far bigger gap between the rich and the rest.
Inflation was far higher, we were paying about 19% on the mortgage on our new house.

[Eddie Honda]

Inflation was far higher, we were paying about 19% on the mortgage on our new house.

Whilst inflation on payments tough at the time, does it not also inflate the debt pile away?

[paulplom]

It is a pretty car but that front wing is a big warning all may not be well....

It was all one colour although the paint looked really thick. The door had caught the wing and chipped paint off it. The panel gaps were all over throughout the car though. I wasn't sure if it was just build quality.
My mate had a 60's camaro in bright yellow that was in the sema show. He paid quite a bit and didn't keep it long. I bumped into him at the Whitley Bay car show and I had a sit in it and a good look around it. The driver's door was catching the wing and was spoiling the otherwise immaculate restoration. It had also chipped the paint.
Neil is the one into his americano. There isn't much he doesn't know. He's had the general lee, starsky and hutch, the hellcat. I think him and his son has the black and white smokey and the bandit pontiacs.
He's a wagon driver for Jewsons. Where did I go wrong?

[mercrocker]

. Where did I go wrong?

If anything like me probably pissing it up the wall having a bloody good time. My cars never got any better no matter how much I earned......

[LynehamHerc]

Inflation was far higher, we were paying about 19% on the mortgage on our new house.

Whilst inflation on payments tough at the time, does it not also inflate the debt pile away?

Not in our case. We had an endowment rather than repayment mortgage, which was pretty common then. We had a stabilised rate of 16% on which the monthly repayments were calculated so every year 3% was added onto our debt, not insignificant on a six figure mortgage.

The icing on the cake financially was my missus got pregnant a few months after we moved in so two salaries effectively became one and a bit. Then the First Gulf War kicked off and having a house with oil fired central heating and a similar AGA didn't help.

I'll stop now as it's developing into a parody of the Four Yorkshireman sketch except this is true.