When I went to a guys place at Watford to look at a Bamby for my wife a few years ago there was a Mk2 Scootercar rotting in his garden, I asked about it and he told me that it ran when he bought it in good condition but then it broke down and had sat there eversince. I asked if it was for sale but no, he would rather leave it to rot in case in about thirty years time he might do something with it, its proberbly still there rotting! This is so typical of many old school 'enthusiasts' and is why so many ended up getting scrapped. About complaints of over restoring, in my experience these usually [ but not always ] come from people that have owned a dismantled one in the shed for the last thirty years and lack the skill, motivation and patience it takes to restore it. The other misconception about it becoming a rich mans sport is in my view not the case , you dont have to spend a fortune to get your microcar up to a respectable standard, I know dozens of people who are average working class folk but present their cars at the shows in a pleasing condition and even pick up a rosette or two. The other myth is that all people with pristine condition cars lock them up in a glass case and never drive them , I keep my schmitt in pristine order but proberbly drive it more than most, I have driven it to Germany, Holland, France, Wales, and so do many others in our field of interest. It has to be said that many of the moaners turn up at the national year after year without there cars . If it takes high values to get these cars out of the hands of the 'armchair enthusiast', and get them restored and on the road then so be it.
