More than the sum of its parts...
There are times when you look at an old car and just know. You know it won’t be that good to drive because, in all honesty, it wasn’t that great even when it was new, and time will have done it no favours. But even knowing all that, old cars can be like any addictive substance. They’re just another drug, drawing you in. You know it’s wrong, you know you should ‘Just say no,’ like Zammo told you, but you just have to try it...
Two cars stand out from those experiences. One was a Montego Mayfair, which I remember specifically for its sumptuous velour upholstery, but the most special of all was the Rover 800 Sterling. Oh my God, sitting in that thing at night, with the ignition on, bathed in the orange glow of its dials – all six of them, including a voltmeter and oil pressure gauge – was something from a different world.
Below the stereo was something even more amazing. It was like something out of Knight Rider: the 'system control centre'. This gave you a top-view diagram of the car and told you about the state of the lights and whether a door was ajar, and next to that was the multi-function trip computer – a flipping computer in a car that monitored the engine’s performance; it just blew my mind. I haven’t even mentioned the luxuriousness of it, because that was almost secondary.
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