[Mick O'Malley]

I bought mine in '94 for £100, bolted a cut down XR3 spoiler (car boot sale, £5) to the back of the roof, brush painted it matt black (my mates dubbed it 'The Stealth') and replaced the 1300 x-flow with the 1600 from my scrap MkII Escort Ghia. I ran it for five years which included three trips to the 24 Heures du Mans and one to battlefields of the Somme. It never missed a beat.

I sold it for £60 as it had lost first gear and half the stick, over which I'd slipped a length of steel pipe to compensate. The bloke I sold it to brought a 'Nellie Knowall' mate with him to drive it back, it took him six attempts before he managed to pull it away in second! Two weeks later I saw him at the Castle Combe Kit Car Show and he had the gall to complain that the breather was blocked!!! WTF does anyone want for 60 notes?

Regards, Mick