15-07-2019, 06:26 PM
A rather pertinent question I feel as we are all getting a little greyer! One often wonders where the vintage car movement will be 50 or even 10 years from now. For sure there are challenges ahead, and younger blood is needed if the hobby / lifestyle we hold dear is to survive in anything like its present form. My own involvement in the A7 world was handed from father to son, as I'm guessing may be the case for a large number of people here. Dad worked as a mechanic for HWM in the 50's and never lost his enthusiasm for 'proper' cars, spending most of his latter years 'up in the garage'. The defining moment for me was the first A7 rally he took me to - Beaulieu 1978 I believe it was - and the sight and sound of all those sports Austins razzing around the field. Dad helped me buy my Nippy a year or two later and the rest, as they say, is history...