WHICH MODEL?
Very often, your choice of make and model will be dictated by your past. Maybe you want to revisit childhood memories by restoring a car similar to one your parents owned when you were a kid, or perhaps it is the first car you had on the road as a teenager that is pulling the nostalgia strings. Be careful not to see things through rosetinted spectacles through, and see if you can try an example of the car you favour out on the road to ensure that you do actually like it, and can still fit in it…
Nowadays, it may well be a car from the 1980s or 1990s that floats the good ship nostalgia for you, and these are generally much easier to jump into and head off into the sunset without having to learn how to drive all over again. The downside is that such cars also generally fall into anoman’s land between classic cars for which there is a thriving marketplace for parts and specialists, and new cars for which manufacturers are still willing (and legally obliged) to supply spare parts. So be careful to check parts supply before you commit – serial, hardened restorers can be scuppered by poor parts supply, so if it’s your first time don’t
