OK, re reading all this now it seems a bit dated, after all it is over 40 years ago. But we certainly had some fun. The interesting thing is the prices we paid for these cars. The classic and historic movement was just getting underway. I think the first issue of Classic Car, the English magazine, which became Thoroughbred and Classic Car was in 1972, and reading copies of those early issues now it all seems a bit quaint and innocent. How things have changed, especially in the 80's when just about anything with wheels, that was more than few years old was being snapped up by 'collectors'. Well a lot of that lot got burnt, big time, good job I say. Fairly average E types were regularly selling for $120,000, now you can pick up those same cars for half that. I am at the moment trying to sell a 1954 MG TF 1500 for an elderly widow here in Cambridge. She, or rather her family, WANT $39,000 for it, exactly the price her husband, now deceased bless his soul, paid for it at the height of the Classic car boom in the late 80's and early 90's. I think he got sucked in because it is an American import, left hand drive, and has a fairly restricted market here in NZ. I even got in touch with the Classic MG club in Southern California but had no luck there either. I am sort of it's guardian and go for a spin from time to time ,but although it has had over 5000 lookers on a web site there have only been a couple of enquiries. So things have certainly changed from when Barry and I were hunting these things down. Glad we did it then, because old pensioners like me can only sit at their computers and write about such things now......Sigh.