Originally Posted by Zetec_mk4_XR3i

Just saw the replies on this post....avoid this car at all costs!!!

As said, it was for sale locally and I stopped to look at it one day, appeared to be tidy and straight so I HPI'd it and came back stolen in 1991 and ownership lies with insurance compnay, as C8SSE said. At this point I lost all interest in the car.

A good mate of mine then went to see it, as had always wanted one and it was so close to us. I told him about the HPi stuff so he phoned the number given, and they advised it had all been sorted out at the time and looked like database hadn't been updated. He phoned me to say there were a few dodgy looking bits on it, and then we managed to get in touch with a previous owner on Facebook who said to beware of the car - it was a total rotbox and he had lost a lot of cash on it. The only thing going for it was the engine, which was according to a few people who knew the car, as sweet as you like having just had a rebuild at Agra in Dundee.

It then disappeared for a bit, and the same mate spotted an S1 on Gumtree which the advertiser had owned for over 6 years, with the number plates blanked out and each picture looked to be a different car. We had a feeling it would be C505 but he went over one night for a look, and it was the same car. Started to get even more dodgy at this point, as the seller was based in Edinburgh, however the car was stored in Dunfermline and it was registered to someone in Alloa?!? My mate had a good poke about it this time to find glassfibre in inner wings and all over floor and seat mounts, sill lips missing and various other bad repairs. Roof was also bad above tailgate hinges. He jokingly offered the boy £2k and he was thinking about it, but turned it down.

I've just noticed it on Gumtree again today, for £3150 with again different pictures and not one of the pics is of C505 FNY. He has also listed a engine spec which is 90% nonsense, and claims to have piles of receipts which is also bullsh*t.