-Avoid buying modern cars if possible. If you need one for the Reliability or warranty or whatever, grumble profuseley about the styling and how it drives. Plus try and go down the route i did and get a bland modern (2004 Clio) in a 70's colour ("Extrem3 orange")

-Learn technical skills, use them to restore something. Buy a knackered-looking classic that would otherwise be banger raced if you have somewhere to keep it. Even if you dont know how to restore it at the time (learn!). Get a "future classic" (the Smart Roadster will be worth piles of cash in 20 years) and look after it, then you're quids in!, if you can tear yourself away from it that is

-Get unleaded/LPG conversions done on classics, to make them cheaper to run, so you can use it every day and give our cause greater visibilty (pull up next to a 'desirable' Evo in a looked-after Rover P4, who's looking at the Evo?)

-Bugger up Traffic surveys by going round and round the roundabout, putting bricks on those stupid rubber strips, or swearing at the anti-motorist pricks in thier yellow tops

-Buy classic car mags, like Practical Classics (the best selling one already, so say thier writers XD) even if you dont plan on owning one. The rocketing sales figures might make the 'numbers' people think...

-If you are a manager at Triumph, take the principles you applied to the Rocket III (60's styling, mad performance, maxiumum offensitivity), and create a new Dolomite and TR9, applying those same ideas!

-If you are a manager at VW, Bring the Citigolf (the mk1, killed off in europe in 1983, still made in some parts of the world) to Britian, You will make Billions!

-If you are a manager at Hindustan Motors, dont kill off the Amby, give it a more 50's looking interior and open dealerships in Britian, you will make ..er..Millions!