Before we part ways, can we touch on your love of classic cars? Has this been a running theme in your life since way back when? What was your very first car? Did you treat it in the same way as your current one?
“Not so much a love for classic cars, just BMW’s really. My good mate Tony got me into them and I just became obsessed with them. I didn’t pass my test until I was 25 or so, so I bought an E46 320 for my first car. Me being young and naive I bought it from a place down south and they delivered it, so I didn’t even test drive it – and of course it turned out to be a total lemon. I’ll spare you the details, but I spent loads on it and ended up selling it to the breakers as I was that fed up with it! Live and learn though.
What I’ve learnt is you can’t expect to drive around in an ageing BMW and not maintain it yourself. It’s going to need money spent on it to keep it running right, and if I took it to the garage every time something went wrong with it then I’d be a fool. I was a trainee mechanic when I was 16, so I’ve had some experience with fixing cars, and there’s a video on YouTube on how to replace just about every part of my car, so I bought some tools and started fixing things as they started to fail. It’s just a big meccano set really. You just need the right tools, a spare afternoon and some colorful language.”
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