Iv just past my test start of jan this year, iv been on my mums insurence on her mk 5 fiesta, its a 1.6i. my grandad just foned me up and says he can get me a mk2 fiesta for nothing, its a 1.1 and belongs to an old man who's retiring.

So i had a quick browse on ebay for xr2 parts, as it wouldn't stay standard for very long lol.

The MOT is nearly up and the last MOT it had welding done then so apparently is pretty ok, body work needs tidying as theres a few blisters here and there.My dad has a friend who's a tester who going to look at the car to see if it will pass MOT with next to no work or expense.

so do you think its worth it getting the car MOTing it and using it to build an xr2 replica and then wen insurence has dropped abit(only 17) putting in the 1.6 engine in?