I think the thing is with cars like that is, can you find another one? A YouTuber I know has done a video on the 22B and it's immaculate. The rear has never been sat in and it still has some of the protective coverings on it from when it was delivered. More used 22Bs are selling for £100k, so it's still crazy money but, for some collectors, the chance to own a low mileage, totally original car is worth a LOT of money. Out of the 400-odd 22Bs built, how many are in that condition? A car like that is probably pretty unique.

To us, it's ridiculous and a waste, but there is a big collector market out there. A lot of those people don't care about driving the car, they care about having it in their collection and are quite happy looking at it, knowing it's one of the very best or most original in the world. Many of them have more than enough money to pay for it. Let's face it, £85k for the Escort, or even £300k for the Impreza isn't actually that much money if you have a collection of cars running into millions, as some of these folks do.

The thing is, most of us remember these cars as £15-20k, things that you could buy, use, abuse and modify, but they've gone beyond that now and are starting to attract the attention of serious collectors. That's a very different world to the one most of us live in.