Quentin RRR Willson

Porsche 914. I’ve tipped the Porsche 914 before but recent soaring 912 prices have started to pull hard at values of the cute VolksPorsche. Interest is growing and most decent cars on eBay have at least 50 watchers. And it’s all about the 914’s vibe. See one in Irish Green, Nepal Orange or Sunflower Yellow with Fuchs wheels and Porsche side-stripes along the doors and it grins with the same Californian carelessness that’s made the vintage 911s and 912s so tremendously hot. Original 914s in period colours look like they were born and raised on the Pacific Coast Highway, which they were really, because rather a lot of the 115,000 built ended up basking in West Coast American sunshine.

‘Beautifully detailed and strikingly handsome, the Tye 34 was VW’s most expensive car in the Sixties’ Some cars just suddenly look hot, and the razor-edge Type 34 Karmann Ghia has become one of them. Like a cross between a Corvair and a 356, the chiselled VW has graduated into classic BMW and Porsche territory.

Find a well-kept BMW 528i E28 or BMW M535i E28 and you’ll have a very cool and quick Eighties performance saloon.

Buying BMW i8 Classic on the Cusp. Quentin’s seen the future – and it’s a hybrid. No, he’s not gone mad...