Years ago (20+) I bought a 1275GT Mini, it had a pair of mole-grips in place of one of the front brake calipers. Another Mini had a floor that light shone through on a sunny day as it was all fibreglass resin with hardly and glass in it. I bought an XR3i that the gearbox had supposedly been rebuilt, I think by rebuilt he meant he threw all the bits back in the box as it only made it 50 yards before it locked solid. A mates Fiesta RS1800 had the cheapest thinnest speaker wire running the main beam circuit on the headlights.