Designs for life

Ronald Muscat Azzopardi uses his trained eye both for his architectural profession and his passion for old cars, Joseph Busuttil from the Old Motors Club says. As an experienced and busy architect, Ronald Muscat Azzopardi is frequently asked to visit the homes of clients who need his services. As he goes around inspecting a building, this very task-oriented professional goes straight to the core of the job required, wasting no time in petty conversation or any other aspect that may distract his focused objective. That is, until his observant eyes fall upon a covered vehicle gathering dust in some garage. Then his old motor instinct takes over, a gut feeling senses the aura of an auto of yesteryear, and now the thought uppermost in his mind is to diplomatically ask his client what lies beneath. “I have had an attraction to old cars from an early age, although in my family there was never any tendency in this direction,” starts Muscat Azzopardi. “Furthermore my father Dominic, who was a headmaster, never even owned a car.” As a student, Muscat Azzopardi bought his first car, a 1963 dark blue Fiat 850, which he kept for a number of years. His eyes then fell on another vehicle that...