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Ernie Warrender

What was your first car?

222 HLO 1964 Triumph Vitesse 1600

What is your daily driver?

Van!

What classic(s) do you currently have?

• 1926 3 litre super sports WO Bentley,
  
• 1959 Prototype Daimler Majestic Major (project),
• 1961 Daimler MM (project),
• 1959 Peerless/Daimler V8 special,
  
• 1961 Bristol 407 (project),
• 1959 Daimler Majestic 3.8 Daily hack
  

What made you choose the classic(s) you own?

Dementia

Have you ever missed buying a particular classic and lived to regret it?

No cos as a kid when they were pennies……I never had any money so they were still unaffordable!

What would be your dream car?

1959 Bentley S1 Fastback

What car do you regret parting company with?

None

What is your favourite run in a classic car?

Early on an Autumn Morning straight up the Cheddar Gorge,
Harvesting in late summer on the 1951 Fergie tractor,

or the Majestic Major I drove and had on tv during the petrol shortage. You could get 4 star when all else was unavailable so I wheeled this, an Empress and my Peerless out and had the engineers of my IT company doing emergency calls in them! THE ROADS WERE DESERTED!!

How much work on your car(s) do you carry out yourself?

All bar topcoat spraying

What do you carry with you when out in your classic?

Mobile phone and worry beads

Do you get involved in the club scene and why?

Not much as I have a penchant for saying what I think is the right thing and invariably turns out to not be so!!!!

Do you take an interest in motor sport, and if so where is your favourite venue(s)/club meetings?

Castle Combe and Prestcott for participation and Brands short circuit for viewing

What is your worst memory involving a classic?

My repeated ability to put Triumph Vitesses in rivers, ditches, Signs saying “Welcome to Aynesford please drive carefully…..the list was pretty long as a budding Graham Hill!!

What is your funniest memory involving a classic car?

Trying to impress a pretty girl in a Daimler Dart (flexi frame flyer) and the bonnet flying up and concussing her (like a true Gentleman I ducked)

What is your most enjoyable moment involving a classic car?

Gentlemanly concern for the feelings of the stunning (lady) concerned prevents a true answer to this.

If you won a competition to have the unlimited and unrestricted use of any classic car for a week, what would you choose and why?

Speed six Bentley , and do I really have to explain!!

How do you define a classic?

The Audi TT is a classic but not old, The 1958 General American car was rubbish then and is rubbish now (On British roads), but age dictates it is a classic.

What in your opinion is the worst car regarded as a classic and why?

The Ford Anglia as it was, and is, boring. Even a Morris 1000 had character and extremely interesting front suspension geometry if you failed to lubricate it.

What question would you like to ask and to whom?

I would like to ask Lord Stokes……..WHY!

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