In the beginning, I bought a rusty pink heap.

Relatively clean 68BHP 1.3l MPI

 In February 2020 my 2000 Renault Clio failed its MOT miserably, resulting in me having to find a "new", relatively decent car on the lowest possible budget, preferably with a year's MOT. That saturday  I went onto Facebook marketplace and Autotrader to compile a list of possible, sub £1000 cars. I found a yellow SLK, a black X-Type, some mouldy Micras and, this formerly red Skoda Felicia, which was by far the cheapest of the bunch at an asking price of £495.

This was supposedly after the previous owner had polished the bonnet.

 This car was my last resort, in case all the other cars turned out to be lemons.
And they were, from the £1000 X-Type to the £500 Micra, they were terrible, so, slightly discouraged I decided to go and see this pink, rusty, Berlin wall flashback inducing cube. The pictures that were uploaded by the seller were even less flattering than these ones you see here, so I wasn't too hopeful, and the low mileage of only 36000 miles for a 22 year old car sounded questionable.

My pink Felicia

 But then i saw it, probably the most basic car I ever bought, and I loved it on first sight.
No electronics, push buttons, a bare bones engine an genuinely low mileage as indicated by the MOT  rapports. The previous owners ( a single family) only drove around 600 miles a year.

So, as I'm starting a blog on this, it won't come as a surprise when I say that I bought the car, for £400, with only 36k and a full year's MOT.