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It was seen as a means to an end sadly, disposable transport one MOT fail then baled. It had a cool 80's BAA Heathrow Airport sticker in the back. It's one of those things I wish I had taken pictures of really...it was an out of area car, but the blue one was from Marriotts of Boston, Lincs...an early Seat dealer...Mazda was their mainstay but they also held Seat and Skoda franchises at the time. They had one of those TV ad packages that were popular with smaller Marques at the time, where the original expensive ad had the details of local dealers tagged onto the end. (slightly apropos) In the East Midlands, Swithland were a huge shifter of lower end cars such as Yugo and Skoda and were prolific advertisers on Central TV which we also got in Boston...some really fun ads!

Just throwing in my Malaga story...a friend of mine in the late 90's was trying to save his sister's tatty but solid blue base model Malaga, but bits were unobtanium even then. A quick scoot round to a local backstreet dealer one evening by chance by me saw a running high-spec model identical to the Copart one in even worse condition with 30 seconds MOT for £150...that month Franken-Malaga was born. I really thought they were a stunningly functional car, loved the simple Euro-centric design aspect of it and the Marbella and Terra van also. For some reason i could never really get excited about the Ibiza but this one is a stunner! Long may it continue

I would absolutely adore this, i have £100 but sadly neither the time or skills to recommission it...

@ruffgeezer sadly i have no locks and @Dave_Q is correct...there is one for the ignition and one for the seat, thanks for your offer to Ruff!

@ruffgeezeri could have sworn there was a key left in the ignition, i'm truly sorry if this wasn't the case. I currently have the panels off on my roadworthy Velofax, so when i get out to work on it next (if the weather ever improves) i will take photos to help reassembly. Good luck with the woofer! 😢

Good to see it went to the right home! ❤️