My name is Iain. Last week I bought Pete's red Rallye!
I thought I'd say hello by way of intro.
I've had a wide and varied car history. Originally I was bought up on a diet of fast peugeots: 2x 405
SRI's, 3x 205 GTI's and 2x 309 GTI's before migrating to other mfr's.
I'm currently building a WRC inspired S5 WRX type R Impreza, but after finding more rust than I would have liked it's now taking me a while to do it.
In the meantime I've been using the wife's M3 on the occasional sprint and track day, but have been increasingly guilty about using her car for that so decided to look for another car that would be a good fun sunny Sunday car, that I can track as well and hopefully contain costs along the way.
I have to say Pete was an absolute Gent and clearly knows his stuff. He went out of his way to keep me informed and help me with questions. I'm up in Cheshire and Pete's on the Sussex border so we did the deal via What's App pretty much. Pete then drove the car to his Dad's in N Wales and I journeyed by train to meet him and collect the car.
I wasn't disappointed and everything was as expected; a very well sorted car with an extensive list of jobs done and lots of subtle little mods. I drove away a happy boy desperately trying to remember how to drive a fwd hot hatch (has been 15yrs!). More recently everything I've been in has been 4WD or RWD.
I'm booked in to a sprint at Curborough on Weds so by Saturday it was wearing new AD08R's all round. I'm sure this is the first of more upgrades (!) but undoubtedly a good one.
Roll on Wednesday and let's see how we go. I'm prob not far off an oil cooler, and if anyone knows where to find a 2.4 ph1 VTS steering rack - let me know!!
Cheers
Iain