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MORLEY’S TOP SIX AFFORDABLE EURO CLASSICS
If you take a flick through the classifieds, you’ll soon discover that, as a genre, European cars represent some of the best buys around. Oh sure, air-cooled Porsches and anything with an M or AMG badge can be a bit harmful to the old plastic fantastic, but by and large, some of the best bargains around have a European badge. But why? Why are they as cheap as they are?
I mean, it’s not as if they’re not good to drive. Because they are. Oh yes, they are. In fact, drive a 1968 Peugeot 504 back-to-back with a HK Belmont, and then decide for yourself who had dynamics and brakes sussed back then. Nor is it a fact that European cars have all been hit with the ugly stick, because, truly, some of the most exotic, charming, downright hornbag four-wheelers ever sketched up have carried a European badge.
“WHY ISN’T THE CITROEN DS REVERED IN THE SAME WAY?”
Meantime, if being a trend-setter counts towards collectability (and the Model T Ford and Tucker Torpedo suggest that, indeed, it does) why isn’t the Citroen DS revered in the same way? Okay, what about sales success as a measure of a car’s worth? Well, the Renault 4 (built 8 million times
