If you had invested 50 years ago ...
It was exactly 50 years ago that an advertisement appeared in Automobil Revue announcing the John Willment Racing Team 's "end-of-season sale". John Willment was one of the largest Ford dealers in England in the 1960s and could afford to finance his own racing team. Willment was also a financial backer for John Wyer, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1968 and 1969 with the Ford GT40.
At the end of 1964, however, cars had to be sold. The choice was as large as it was interesting.
Two AC Cobras were offered as "fully-fledged Ferrari competitors", Formula 2 cars from Lola and Brabham, an Elva-BMW (Mk7), a Lotus 23 with a Ford-Cosworth engine and 1.1 liter displacement, a Ford Galaxie with over 400 hp and also a Lotus Cortina and a Ford Cortina GT. Anyone who wanted to could even buy spare parts.
Together, the vehicles must have cost a six-figure sum at the time; today they would be worth several million. So you would have simply had to buy them and store them carefully, and you would have been rid of any pension worries. But those were different times, hardly anyone had any money and who would have had the stamina (or endurance) to keep the cars for so long?
For fans, here is the entire advertisement as it was printed in AR 50/1964:
