PRIOR CONVICTION
Matt Prior
Sometimes people are sniffy about those who buy a new car on the never-never, the drip or whatever they want to call it. And as an enthusiast, it’s not how I like to buy cars either. I don’t want just a tool, something I won’t bond with, merely what I budget for in order to go to work and the shop.
But I’m not everyone. There are loads of objects in my life to which I have no attachment. Things I will buy, use until they break then have repaired if they can be or recycled if they can’t (a subject for another column, this). I’d rather buy better and buy once, but this is harder – I suspect deliberately – than it used to be. But still, some things I care about, some things I don’t. And cars? Well, yes, I do.