Collectors should go for gold

Classic cars have proved to be amongst the best collectible investments.

Anyone who's ever had young children understands the power of the collector's instinct. When I was growing up, the collectibles of choice were comics, old stamps or foreign currencies we'd scour the bric-a-brac shops and hone our negotiating skills in the playground, swapping our booty with one another.

Toy manufacturers long since cottoned on to this psychological frailty, and today's children are assaulted on all sides by potential collectibles to obsess over swathes of cards and stickers and plastic figures line the aisles near the tills, all crying out for your offspring to "collect the set".

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