Sell and buy

Joseph Burlo is an excellent car salesman. But he is also good at finding classic cars to add to his collection.

“It was driven by Roger Moore while filming one of The Sainttelevision episodes in Malta in the 1960s”

In the realm of medicine, people specialise in various fields, like in the cardiac, respiratory, paediattics, orthopaedics, and rheumatology fields. Their proximity to the subject matter, experience, successful outcomes and subsequent patient satisfaction inexorably link their individual name to the particular specialization. Likewise in the mental health field, one finds learned men (and women!) whose specific names have become speedily synonymous with child, adult, and old age psychiatry, rehabilitation and forensic matters. Asking specifically for them, clients flock to their hospital clinics, and many a time overflow to their private practice, willing to endure lengthy waits for an appointment to see them.

As they are growing up, many children tend to start displaying traits, characteristics, idiosyncracies, likes and dislikes which they hawe gradually imbibed from their family and the surrounding environment   during their crucial formative years. To the pride of their doting parents, basking in the reflected glory, as well as to their own self satisfaction as model offspring, these emerging adolescents and ewentual adults are serenely sucked into the manufacturing process of chips off the old block.   

I knew for certain that I would find him them behind the counter on Wednesday night - the only evening when the bar at the Old Motors Club in Narrow Street Lija, opens and becomes a wide watering hole for thirsty members. They flock in moderate numbers to exchange information, seeking to acquire that elusive spare part required to finish a long standing conversion job, or listening attentively to some gripping, harrowing narrative, always underpinned by a classic car theme. Or just to relax over a drink with kindred spirits and soul mates after a hard day's work.