My first car was an MG. Often it was one's first car... an MG. Mine was a 1930 model and I bought it in 1950. And so it was quite old when I bought it - second hand, of course. And I didn't have any money, I just wanted the car. So it was when I started my hire purchase career and after that bought many cars on the hire purchase. One could buy a car for a down payment of about £20 and £2 a week after that. Cars were difficult to find immediately after the war, there was no production of cars, and so pre-war cars became very valuable. I couldn't afford very much on those lines, I had to be content with my MG. But I felt the MG wasn't really pretentious enough. I was beginning to become rather self-important thinking I might make some progress in life and I ought to have a vehicle that more suited my aspiring stature. So I bought a Rover – very comfortable. The Rover was always known as the poor man's Bentley and they were very comfortable cars and well built and I quite enjoyed mine. I soon realised it was just a vehicle for rebuilding. You know, I was buying these cars and I liked to rebuild them and so my mechanical instincts were beginning to exert themselves.