Andrew came across her during one of his habitual late-night trawls of dubious and dingy internet sites, and on seeing her picture (we could see that she looked like a bit of a goer) we both knew that we just had to have her.
Yes, she ticked all the boxes; cheap (bidding on her auction was then at about £20), Left Hand Drive (but yes ok, she's on Swedish registration plates which might pose a problem), and as an Audi 100 saloon there should be plenty of internal stowage space, I'd have a reasonable chance of fitting my oversize frame into the driving seat comfortably for a few thousand miles, a 1.8 petrol engine should be just about powerful enough for the terrain we'll be going through (although on balance a diesel might possibly have been preferable) and Audi usually build (fingers crossed) reliable cars.
One quick early-morning eBay snipe and she's a snip at just £102.
We'd been searching for a cheap LHD car for quite a while, hence Andrew's internet trawling, but after months of unsuccessful searching we were at the early stages of planning to buy a wreck in Belgium and then having to trailer it back over. Whatever it says on the entry forms - without the car you're just not in the event yet and time was marching on... A relief therefore to find that we'd only have to take a short trip on the M4 and up to the Valleys of South Wales to collect our wheels and, once the relevant paperwork was in place - driveable. :-)
And there she is, our first view of our new companion.
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