Carl Chambers Rallye

[C.A.R.]

What a silly comment.

Not really, cars are made to be driven, I see no point in having a car renowned for it's driving experience that you don't drive.

Same as all these low milage supercars and racecars you see in people's collections, it's a complete waste of the car, you may as well just have a replica made out of some body panels, stick it in a corner on display and let someone actually drive the real car and enjoy doing what it was designed to do. The 'art' in a car like the Rallye is how it drives, not how it looks.

Trouble is, someone has to preserve just one. And that's all we're talking about here - one car.

Years down the line when it could be in some museum piece people aren't going to want a knackered one on display that's had the rear beam worn out and the bushes all buggered up 'because we wanted to see how it drives' because there are lots out there to be driven. I'd have thought someone who appreciates the engineering (simple as a 306 may be) would embrace the fact that one is being preserved in a world where all modern cars have seemingly more and more complex suspension setups.

At the end of the day though, it's his car to do with it what he pleases! I'm not sure why it's sparked quite such a debate...

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In my mind it would be like never letting a race horse run or never tasting a prize winning wine

But that's backwards.

It would be like having 500 genetically-engineered identical race horses and letting all of them run bar 1.

It would be like corking 500 bottles of prize-winning wine and drinking all but one bottle. In fact, that almost makes sense...

Do you see what I mean yet?