No More Cheap Parking
When my family and I moved from New York to London in 1969, the great advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, for whom I would become creative director of the Ford of Europe account, shipped all our worldly goods to our new home. Among them was a year-old BMW 2002. LHD in a RHD country, drives a BMW but works on the Ford account? Don't ask. Until we found a flat to rent, the 2002 was parked in a garage just like the one you see here. I seem to recall paying about $60 a month, quite a lot at the time but not bad for fashionable kings Road. London today is a very expensive place to live and if this Knightsbridge garage is an example, I couldn't afford to park a car, let alone drive one. According to Autoblog, parking spaces are being sold for over $147,000. On a 25-year mortgage, that's probably around $800 a month. Cable not included.
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