A Question of Support

One of the first questions you inevitably get asked if you run an old car is “Aren’t the parts for that impossible to find nowadays?” And sure, if you own a Peugeot 309 or a Vauxhall Royale parts can often be harder to source than for the average modern car. After all, most of the classics we own and write about are now over a quarter of a century old, and were never designed to last longer than a decade. With scrapyards bereft of donors and the available stock from dealers long since written off against the books and scrapped to save space, the options can be surprisingly limited even for basic service items if you’ve chosen a car that was rare even new.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. For a handful of classics, the parts supply now is not only adequate but booming; with parts being remanufactured in quantities that might have you believe that the cars still linger on every street corner. From service items down to fiddly little bits of trim, there is little for any of the cars we’re about to list that isn’t available brand new, off the shelf, and likely made within the last couple of months. These are the classics it’s easy to own, the cars that summon the rose tints of nostalgia without bringing heartache at the