Driveable Classics seeks to offer interesting vehicles for your enjoyment and/or investment sourced from around the country. Before taking possession of a Driveable Classics vehicle, we will have inspected your vehicle and completed any major mechanical work. This ensures your ability to enjoy the vehicle as soon as you take ownership. It is important to remember that these vehicles are what we call “Drivers”. That means that minor mechanical items, chips and dings, etc may not have been done. These are not vehicles meant for museums but for your enjoyment. Any known deficiencies will be disclosed and when appropriate supported by pictures.

Since these are special vehicles and many of them 30 to 40 years old, there are no warranties/guarantees implied or otherwise. You are welcome to visit our facility, though only by appointment. Please contact us by clicking on the 'contact button'. Because we do travel extensively searching out these wonderful machines, we may not respond to you immediately but within a reasonable time.

Why did we start this business? I bought my first car at 19. It was a new 1959 Austin Healey “Bugeye” Sprite which sold for $1959 dollars and the radio was an additional $65. I financed it for forty some odd dollars a month and immediately joined the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). Over the next 14 months, I auto crossed, raced, rallied, hill climbed and did some surreptitious night street racing against older American cars ending up with 70,000 miles before rebuilding a very tired engine. This led to a couple of years of selling MGs, Morris Minors, and Triumphs for Picard Motor Sales in R.I. After selling the president of a local junior college a Triumph Herald sedan, he convinced me to take a couple of years of business courses with them. I then sold my car to the Service Manager who won a N.E. Region Championship with the car and it raced successfully for many more years. After school I worked at different jobs for a while before finally opening my own dealership in 1966. I handled Toyota and BMC vehicles, which in those days were MG, Austin & Austin Healey. I then added Rover, Yenko Stinger, and Alfa Romeo to our lines. Half of our potential customers were the local fish and seagulls, as we were located just off the ocean in Swampscott, Mass. By 1968 I decided to relocate the business to a more heavily traveled area. I took over a bankrupt dealership which sold the same vehicles I had and in addition, Jaguar and Lotus. Over the next few years I continued to enjoy motor sports but always at an affordable level. Adding to the mix was ice racing and dirt track racing with Mini Coopers, Austin Americas and Corvairs. Those were fun years for those of us who loved interesting cars. We could drive our cars to the races, remove the windshield and tape a Plexiglas windscreen in the defroster slot, take off the muffler and add a short straight pipe; although, by the middle 60’s roll bars and some helmets that actually provided protection were mandated. Well, time marched on and families started. Businesses grew and more time was spent with the family rinkside at 5 a.m. than monkeying with the old race car. Besides, have you ever tried to take your wife and two children for an exhilarating ride in a Bugeye or MG? I sold that dealership in 1978 and spent time with my family. I then worked in the marine industry before heading to Vermont with my partner for a new car venture, a Ford/Toyota dealership. In 1994 I sold these dealerships to spend time passagemaking on our trawler and then our first grandchild arrived on the scene. We sold the boat and I became landlocked again.

What to do now? I hate mowing lawns!!

Why not start a business we can enjoy as a family and allow me to relive the past a bit? Thus, the concept of Driveable Classics. A business that would seek out interesting, nostalgic vehicles, ones not so perfect that we would feel afraid to drive them to the restaurant or supermarket because they might get a scratch. Well, I still park a few yards away from those large honkers. A business that would allow me to spend some time behind the wheel of the cars I always enjoyed as well as many I only dreamed about. A business that would supply good “Drivers” for other people like me, who always enjoyed the feeling of the wind through our hair while drifting through turns on back country roads. Yes, there are still many of those around!

So this is a little about us. Now what about you?

How can we feed your dreams?