another replica

[Mike Costigan]

Jenks had a very blinkered view of the old car world. Assuming his competition car got used in an event, then I can understand him starting the ball rolling with 'original' being a bit of a unicorn. But in the wider universe there are plenty of examples which qualify for his 'original' label. I know of two cars local to me - an Austin Maxi and a Rover-BRM - which each have delivery mileage recorded and have never been so much as started-up since first purchase. Neither have been registered for the road and both, I bet, still have the original air in their tyres (if there's any left, they're both on axle stands)!

And I don't have a problem with the wider use of the vintage term - Vintage with a capital V is another matter!