What you consider to be a classic car changes with each year of your life. I was recently shocked by two dramatic time-based changes. First, somebody bought a real W.O. pre-war Bentley with a Brooklands history for £140,000. The values of cars such as this are tumbling as the people who want them go into sheltered accommodation. I will still build a monster Bentley boat-tailed aluminium-bodied special inspired by the utterly magnificent 1930 8-litre Bentley, but I have to digest the likelihood that I will end up owning the prototype and that will be the end of the matter.
