Did Your Christmas Wishes Come True?

As a classic car enthusiast, there are heaps of things you can wish for, and it needn’t be whole cars.

Personally, I stopped wishing for complete cars many years ago – as it dawned on me that I was never going to be gifted one anyway. This year I restricted myself to a pair of wellies, as the only thing car-related – and I got them! I hear you asking how wellies can possibly be car-related? Well, I only ever use wellies when I hand-wash my classic cars using the two-bucket method. Unfortunately my old wellies had sprung a leak. With a new set of water-tight wellies, I can really let lose again in the new year.

Tools, something to store them in, or even tips on how to use them are great gift ideas too.

However, in previous years I’ve been known to seek the limits of what family members would entertain as a suitable Christmas gift. An extra long torque wrench was for many years my pinnacle (having bought the short one myself), but that was decisively beaten the year I was given a complete oil-cooler kit. That coincided with a Christmas spent at the in-laws, who had serious doubts about my mental health, when they experienced my childish joy over the raw aluminium cooler, its shiny fittings and not least those long hoses. The year I received four non-winged spinners for my wire wheels (a necessity for the Danish MOT), most certainly also count as one of the better Christmases, and I’m sure there were others which I have since forgotten about.

A complete Lamborghini? Argh, that’s unlikely to happen for many. But maybe the driving gloves? That long-sleeve shirt in the perfect colour? Or maybe just the anti-mist spray for the windows…

How about our readers? Share which car-related Christmas gift has been your best, and try to surpass all other readers. Did someone indeed receive a whole car? Or which car-related gift put the biggest smile on your face – despite no one in your family really understanding why? It’s not too late for inspiration for all of us enthusiasts buying Christmas gifts for ourselves after Christmas…