16-06-2020, 01:11 PM
I bought my 1934 RP in 1971 aged 16 after reading Colemans Drive borrowed from the school library. Between 1972 and about the early 80's the car was doing 10K or more miles a year as a daily driver for me or my then girlfriend later 1st wife. I did go through a period in the late 80's and 90's when I did not enjoy driving it as much mainly due to the increased speed, density and impatience of modern traffic, but this was in the West Midlands. I nearly sold the car when we took to life afloat in 2007, however I was prevailed upon by my wife to put it in storage (she was happy for me to sell the much more derivable S3 Lotus Elan) and am now glad I did. We have plans to come ashore and I am looking forward to being able to get reacquainted with regular Sevening. It does it for me but it is purely personal. As Frankie Howerd used to say "How do you know if you haven't tried it".