A trip to the Midlands - our first viewing.

After two or three weeks of hunting on the internet, we'd booked our first viewing and set off to Wolverhampton. Upon arrival we were greeted by the owner, he appeared very genuine and showed us around the car pointing out all the things that needed doing to it, e.g. smoky turbo, potential suspension tweaks and removal of that ridiculous wing. After a brief test drive, checks on the engine and a lot of checking for rust we thought the car was a possibility.

Checking the documents showed the car was out of MOT, it has run out the prior week unknown to the owner. Our hopes of returning with a car that day had been dashed.

After weighing up the pros and cons we thought the car was worth an offer, it had been for sale for three weeks and already been dropped in price once, with no MOT or tax we offered £1,150 and as the owner was looking to get rid of it sooner rather than later he accepted.

We'd bought our track bitch.

Attempts were made to recover the car that day, but these fell through and the car was recovered the following weekend.

Now all we needed to do was try and get it through its MOT! Who knows what we had bought, how much of a gamble had we made?