- Title: Classic Cars
- Date: 6th October 1991
- Summary: PROG 6. SHRINK-WRAPPED CLASSICS A mint and unused Cortina, or a new VW Beetle wrapped up against the ravages of time and decay are now so rare that prices are rising faster than the rarest Veteran. This final programme askes a handful of experts what they believe makes a classic car a classic and talk to Alexander Patrick who buys 'factory fresh ' cars specifically to store away as pristine investments. For these experts and collectors of Classic Cars are not the leaky high cost playthings of yesteryear, they are the showroom masterpieces of today. In the programme we hear what some people believe makes a classic car a classic and why elements other than sheer breeding can invest a car with classic collect ability, even when it's new. So when you peel back the plastic vacuum packaging to reveal a mint twenty five year old Jag. Will it be a classic worth millions.
- Description:Ferraris to cortinas - the technology design and eccentricity of the classic car
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Entertainment
- Producer:Uden Associates Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 6
- Transmission Date:06/10/1991
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s