Obviously the Sureterm team love our classic cars so we thought that we would share our top three reasons why you should buy a classic car.

Financial
Buying a classic car can make excellent financial sense.

Buying and running a classic like a Morris Minor or Anglia 105E for instance, can save you a wad in motoring bills, when compared to some dull piece of tin from any number of today’s manufacturers.

So long as you look after your classic Morris, you are in with a good chance of at least maintaining the value of the car throughout the time you keep it. In rare cases it may appreciate in value!

As for the cost of insurance,  the cost of insuring a Moggie when compared with the premium asked for insuring a Daewoo or a Golf can be considerably less, probably no more than a couple of hundred quid tops, particularly if you call Sureterm Direct for a classic car insurance quote.

Then there’s road tax. As long as your classic car was built pre-1973, it should qualify for zero rated road tax – you still need to display a tax disc but hey presto! – It costs nothing for a whole 12 months! That’ll save you £160 a year in one go.

Social
Ask many owners why they run a classic car and they often reply that owning and running a classic car can be a very sociable pastime indeed, depending on your approach.

Simply running an old car means you can get waved and flashed at (!) by other like-minded individuals as your potter around the countryside in your own historic machine but if you so choose, you can go one step further and join a classic owners club.

Whether you join a club specialising in a particular marque, or a local classic club catering for owners of any oddball machines, you can be sure to have some fun and at the same time have a rich vein of knowledge in which to tap into should you encounter a problem with your own car, as members are always willing to help out with advice, or sometimes even the loan of tools. Many of the larger one-make clubs also remanufacture rare spares for your particular car, so for that reason alone it pays to join.

Environmental
There are some sound environmental benefits to running an older classic car.

It is well documented that a significant proportion of the pollution associated with every brand new car originates from its own manufacture. So instead why not run a classic? To many people’s eyes this is an excellent example of re-using something that is a little older, instead of automatically binning it and replacing with a later model. Classics by and large run ok on unleaded just as much as modern cars do.

The economy of a classic, when viewed against a similarly sized modern car, is also very comparable. Admittedly some classics require a few modifications before they can do a significant mileage on unleaded, but yet again this is a classic example of modifying and adapting an existing resource (in this case an old car) to modern conditions, instead of just junking it and replacing with new.

Older cars lend themselves to maintenance in ways that no modern can hope to do. Most components in cars of the 1970s and earlier can usually be stripped down, the failed part located, and that one item replaced quite cheaply. Compare this to a new car with its sealed for life black boxes which are destined for the bin and immediate replacement, upon showing a problem.

To make that call to the Sureterm classic car insurance team, just dial 0800 999 2030.  We don’t charge you for the call and we can save you money on your classic car insurance.

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