13-01-2023, 02:13 PM
R. It'll be very interesting to know what you can arrange for Willow when the time comes.
The age restrictions on insurance - imposed, I gather, by the underwriters and not by brokers such as RH - really are a nightmare. By the time that I was 21, Steve and I had three operational Sevens between us and I reckon that I'd clocked up around 40,000 solo miles in the RP, 10,000 in the PD and another thousand or so in the RK.
With distinctly non-A7-inclined parents, I'd have been lucky to have accumulated more than a few hundred miles if supervision had been required in those days.
A decade ago, Charlotte and David were driving significant mileages in their ancient Austins on their own, learning a great deal and becoming safer young drivers in the process.
Given that some 17-year-olds manage to insure hot hatches that they then drive like complete a***holes, I really can't see why there should be such an issue over much tamer elderly cars.
The age restrictions on insurance - imposed, I gather, by the underwriters and not by brokers such as RH - really are a nightmare. By the time that I was 21, Steve and I had three operational Sevens between us and I reckon that I'd clocked up around 40,000 solo miles in the RP, 10,000 in the PD and another thousand or so in the RK.
With distinctly non-A7-inclined parents, I'd have been lucky to have accumulated more than a few hundred miles if supervision had been required in those days.
A decade ago, Charlotte and David were driving significant mileages in their ancient Austins on their own, learning a great deal and becoming safer young drivers in the process.
Given that some 17-year-olds manage to insure hot hatches that they then drive like complete a***holes, I really can't see why there should be such an issue over much tamer elderly cars.