The story
A birthday present he never got over.
Flip van der Merwe was twenty-three when this MGA became his — a present for his birthday, and the kind that turns out to matter for rather longer than anyone intended. Sixty-six years later it is still his, and it has never had another owner.
It was his car through his twenties. [What did he use it for — the drive to work, weekends, the coast road, a particular trip? One concrete detail here is worth more than a paragraph of adjectives.]
It was still his when he married and the children came along. [Anything the family remembers about the car in those years. This is the part people will read twice.]
[A line in his own words, or the family's, about the car. Something plain and true rather than poetic.]
And then the grandchildren. [A sentence about what the car means to them — being allowed to sit in it, being driven somewhere in it, asking to go out in it. Sixty-six years in one family is the whole point of this page, and this is where it lands.]
[Why it is being sold now. Keep it short and straight. Buyers of cars like this care that it is going somewhere good, and they can tell when they are being handled.]
