A survey of 3,500 classic car owners by specialist classic car insurance company, Footman James, suggests that classics from the 1960s are the most appealing. 64% of respondents said that decade was the most interesting for classic cars, while the two most popular classics are associated with that decade: the MGB, launched in 1962 and the Morris Minor (launched earlier, but available throughout the decade).

It should be said that the result of the survey was slightly predictable in that the most common age for someone to own a classic car is 50-59 years old. Such people would have been growing up in the 1960s and would therefore naturally be nostalgic about that period now.