if I didn't have my cossie now and this was up for £15k I wouldn't even negotiate...I would have driven to him, given him the cash and driven away with it.

People around 35 to 40 maybe more grew up with the good days of max power before it went in to chav city, we had car and car conversions plus the hey day of rally cross and the release of the Cosworth so it means so much more than a list of parts. Bubble arches and an engine with the cool factor and something that would never normally be this quick is the stuff of our day dreams.

My 205 used to be on my wall as a poster next to H20 COS and now I own it. If someone offered me £30k today I would not part with it.