I didn't know this was your car! I nearly bought it myself, it belonged to an accountant in Norwich originally (he got it on a lease hire scheme for £28k new ). He got offered it after the scheme had finished to purchase for £5k and offered it to me for this amount (all those years ago as well, so bargain, as other Rouse cars were going for £9k), but it had had a hard life and needed a complete respray with loads of parking dents (not one straight panel and over 100k miles if I remember correctly), so I declined.

When I saw it in the flesh after it had been owned by the guy above, I really regretted not buying it, as he did bring it back up to scratch . I thought it had a TO3/4 fitted when I saw it at one of the shows though (can you see if it has from the photos, as the spec sheet is a load of bollocks - look what size they say the Escort wheels are for a start... ) ?