Notes From the Hard Shoulder
“It begins with the revelation that something like a rare Lamborghini has been found abandoned in a garage.
Reading on, we discover that it's been there since 1980. It's very dusty and the tyres are flat but, remarkably, it's complete and in need of only 'gentle recommissioning', as the classics lot put it.
A few months later we see a picture of the same car, gleaming like new, and bowling down a tree-lined road in the hands of a bloke who never imagined he could get his hands on such a thing. M...arvellous.
Now here's what I've never understood. How did anyone ever forget about owning a Lamborghini?
Or grow bored of owning one? How did a car that is obviously in sound condition end up sitting idle for 25 years? If the previous owner didn't like it, why wasn't it sold? Or even given away? All it took was a postcard in the local newsagent's window.
I can see how a fountain pen might work its way to the back of a desk drawer and be overlooked for two decades. A few years ago I bought my girlfriend a pair of boots that she didn't really like, and they are in the corner of her wardrobe, still in the original box and awaiting the great day when they appear on eBay as an item of mint and unused retro chic.MoreLess
Reading on, we discover that it's been there since 1980. It's very dusty and the tyres are flat but, remarkably, it's complete and in need of only 'gentle recommissioning', as the classics lot put it.
A few months later we see a picture of the same car, gleaming like new, and bowling down a tree-lined road in the hands of a bloke who never imagined he could get his hands on such a thing. M...arvellous.
Now here's what I've never understood. How did anyone ever forget about owning a Lamborghini?
Or grow bored of owning one? How did a car that is obviously in sound condition end up sitting idle for 25 years? If the previous owner didn't like it, why wasn't it sold? Or even given away? All it took was a postcard in the local newsagent's window.
I can see how a fountain pen might work its way to the back of a desk drawer and be overlooked for two decades. A few years ago I bought my girlfriend a pair of boots that she didn't really like, and they are in the corner of her wardrobe, still in the original box and awaiting the great day when they appear on eBay as an item of mint and unused retro chic.MoreLess
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