<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 179083" data-quote="vataklip" data-source="post: 3341763"
class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch">
<div class="bbCodeBlock-title">
<a href="/goto/post?id=3341763"
class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump"
rel="nofollow"
data-xf-click="attribution"
data-content-selector="#post-3341763">vataklip said:</a>
</div>
<div class="bbCodeBlock-content">
<div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent ">
Okay Thanks, do you know any good classic car insurance’s? Footman james have a minimum age of 25.<br />
<br />
I think you’re right, Doing it as a second car does seem to be the way, just makes it even pricier<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /><br />
<br />
Wow that would have been a dream to get the Cosworth at this age! I’m sure you drove it very sensibly<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />
</div>
<div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div>
</div>
</blockquote>The 16v 190E was a fantastic car to learn to drive properly in, back in the day performance was good but it was a great chassis with excellent handling characteristics and fun to drive within sensible boundaries - l really liked them (and still do!)<br />
<br />
Can’t remember which underwriter it was, but I think it was arranged through a broker based in Essex at the time - Peformance Direct (?). This was in the old days but still this millennium and I would have been 20 at the time. Probably got the number out of the back of a magazine back then…<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><br />
<br />
Peter Best were always good for classic insurance too, I used to pay a few hundred tops for any cars I had.<br />
<br />
In fact the Cosworth was definitely under £1000 @ 20 years old, but inflation etc accounts for a good chunk of what you’ve been quoted today of course.<br />
<br />
It’s one of the reasons I’ve always had more than one car. When I bought a CLK55 in my twenties, the insurer I was with for my main car at the time wouldn’t cover it. So I got classic insurance on it (2001 ‘51’ plate car in 2008) for c. £300 PA, including agreed valuation, European breakdown cover, zero excess on glass claims etc.<br />
<br />
And I continued to insure my E-class estate at the time - with all the running costs included (tax/MOT/insurance - probably about £500 all in) plus the policy on the CLK55 it was less than the cost of a regular policy on the CLK55 at the time.<br />
<br />
Two cars for the price of less than one! <img src="/styles/mbclub/smilies/thumb.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":thumb:" title="Thumb :thumb:" data-shortname=":thumb:" /><br />
<br />
You’ve got nothing to lose by getting as many quotes as possible. It will be a small, niche insurer that will eventually come out with a sensible quote for someone of your age and that type of car <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></div>