On June 19, 2009, I was checking EBay and found a project car that had the right color and interior. It was a red Austin Healey 3000 Mk III phase 2, one of the last build Big Healey’s in 1968. The auction would end on June 22 at 06:46 CEST. Because the car was located in Houston Texas and I live in The Netherlands, I hesitated. But on Sunday evening, the day before the auction would end, I decided to enter a maximum bid. Just before I left for work on Monday, the auction ended and EBay said “Congratulations, you have won the object”. Okay now what, I bought a car in the US, a lot of things needed to be arranged.

How do I explain my wife I spend a lot of money on a car which wasn’t working and which I never had seen before