on a fine Saturday in May 2004 I drove past one of the less salubrious pre-owned motor re-allocation consultants and staring out of the heavily used cheap specials was a green 116.
I took it for a drive - decided that the lack of power, directional control and retardation along with non working A-C and a constantly heating heater was as good a reason as ever to buy a car with no known history that didn't want to idle anyway.
My real reason for buying it was that I wanted a mule to...