Frozen Assets

The 1980s were all business. If you weren’t barking ‘Time is money, my friend!’ into a huge mobile phone, resplendent in red braces and fat screw-you pinstripes, you weren’t playing the game. There was no time for anything but Filofaxes, three-martini-lunches and the acquisition of colossal wealth. And if you want to buy into that eighties culture today, you’ve got to have your business head on. The retro nostalgia is nothing without a keen focus on the bottom line. So when Nick Allen decided to buy himself the DeLorean you see here, it wasn’t a frivolous recreational pursuit – his accountant told him to do it, this was a strictly logical financial decision.

No, stop sniggering, it’s true. “I run a business, which makes me the guarantor for the rent on the place,” Nick explains. “My accountant said that I should buy an asset worth the value