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Condition, not colour, counts
It’s a shame that Chris Hope rejected a Triumph 2.5 PI on the basis that it was brown (CCW, 12 April). I placed an advert in Classic Car Weekly’s Wanted classifieds section for a Triumph 2500 back in 2006 and got a response from a gentleman in Bridgewater with a brown 2.5 PI. He sent photos and my wife – just like Chris’s – rejected it purely based on its colour.
Fast-forward six weeks or so and I was in Oxford having finished work early and with a day to spare. My brother lived in Abingdon just a handful of miles way and I pondered that since I was more than halfway to Somerset (I was living in Norfolk at the time) why not catch a train and set off down south to view the Triumph anyway?
The rest, as they say, is history. I ended up with a beautiful unrestored PI that has only 46,000 miles on the odometer to this day and which has never been welded – even my wife loves it now!
I think brown has come back into fashion – if that really matters – but I would suggest that the golden rule is to always buy a car on its condition, not the colour of its paint.
As a former owner of a Clove Brown Mini, I agree. Then again, my wife thinks that my taste in car colours is terrible! – Ed.
Stop the smart motorways
An emergency, by definition, is ‘something dangerous or serious that happens suddenly or unexpectedly’. Like a car breaking down on a motorway. Maybe a sudden tyre deflation or perhaps running out of petrol. Or the vehicle’s driver suddenly becoming unwell. That’s why the continuous hard shoulder was introduced – to give motorists reassurance that it was available for use any time that an emergency occurred.
It is now good news that the Prime Minister has – somewhat belatedly – decided to halt future construction of smart motorways that have removed the hard shoulder. But what abo
