“THESE CARS ARE OFTEN BEST ENJOYED VICARIOUSLY
THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE”
In the past 12 months I have treated car buying like an extreme version of Pokémon Go, and while this isn’t exactly normal it has been good material for here. Yet, what I find most entertaining is the fact that people only question your sanity when you start selling them off.
Not when you send a stranger thousands of euro for an armoured BMW in Bulgaria. Or buy a pair of kei cars off Facebook Marketplace unseen and unregistered. Then, there was the barn find Brabus W126 (non-runner) quickly followed by an identical Brabus W126 in Belgium (runner). Picked up by a friend in Germany because travel wasn’t permitted at the time.