02-02-2019, 05:31 PM
Never had any Ferrari ambitions myself. The Lotus Elan was my dream car (after the Austin 7). Bought my first an S1 for £600 when I was 18. Swapped the chassis and cylinder head and it was everything I dreamt of. My Mom loved it too. Sold that to buy my first house and marry. Second Elan came as a body shell and all the bits laid out on a garage floor. I made the assessment that all the major expensive bits were there and on the understanding it had no reg docs it was mine. There was a reg number on the body so applied to DVLA for a reg doc and amazingly it duly turned up in the post. This one I kept for 20 years before selling it just before the prices exploded (of course) to sell up and move on to our 16 metre Danish trawler. Still have my first Austin 7, purchased for £85 when I was 16, although it has been in store and little used for the last 11 years.