On the hunt for our car.

The hunt for our track bitch started in late January, scouring eBay, Pistonheads and specialist forums. It can be quite a time consuming task, especially trying to get agreement on which cars we should consider over email. Sometimes you need to move fast to get the right car, but agreement needs to be made before hand. Also, contacting speculative owners proved to be painful, with many unanswered emails, texts and forum DMs proving to be very frustrating. They say selling a car is fraught with time wasters! 

After 10 days or so of looking in adverts a couple of cars had caught or attention. One, an already developed track bitch, including cage, race seats and sensible modifications, it was a out of tax and MOT but for the bargain price of £1,000 it was worth a gamble. 

The second was a pretty ugly looking example which had quite a lot of money spent on the engine and suspension, but was suffering from fuel line problems and a few bits of rust.

Both cars were worth a look, but to our disappointment the first was sold before we could get to see it and the second had more problems and the owner had then decided to fix it and keep it. Our quest to find our track bitch continued.

It was another 10 days before we were able to find anything worth viewing, anything good seemed to be in Kent, Essex, Plymouth or Scotland. Anything crap and falling apart seemed to be local. Or it had a ‘DIMMA kit’! Finally, we came across a red G reg GT Turbo in Wolverhampton with slightly dubious rear wing.

As it was only 1h 15 m drive away and we were all free, we booked a viewing.