Not sure about this investment malarkey. It’s one of the things that stops me buying all the classic car magazines. Once they’d driven everything (about 25 years ago), they turned to the financial side of our hobby, but it’s always been speculation and man maths - no-one looks at the real world running/repair/storage costs. It’s all too dull, but they are real. There’s no way I’m going to add up what I’ve spent on motoring in my lifetime - it would kill my enjoyment stone dead.
We used to have nigh on 20 cars to run/repair/tax and test. It was impossible. But trying was fun - that was the hobby. It wasn’t just the driving that provided pleasure, but the people we met along the way and all the hard graft that went into getting to the driving stage.
Now I’m older, the numbers are more sensible, but the source of the enjoyment remains the same.
The ‘majority’ of our friends don’t share this interest at all. They drive what we would call boring cars, but they’ve picked up from the media that we have made good investments.
The truth is they are lovely to look at and fun to drive, but they’re bloody hard work.