Sorry for the delay in responding – actually been out riding (who’d have thought it?!)…
I’ll work out how to upload a photo in due course (link here). I do like it, but I don’t love it like I loved my Mk2 Golf. Market seems fairly strong and I think the right buyer would be paying in the region of £5k, but the audience is fairly small in the grand scheme of things. Car isn’t quite concourse but it’s not miles off. I did a few classic car shows with it over the summer and it absolutely held its own.
Interesting comments on the modifications. I’d be looking at a Zetec or ST170 engine, stiffer springs and shocks, custom exhaust, new brakes and larger diameter steel wheels and better tyres. I’m no speed demon by any means and it only really does the school run and an occasional commute to work which is about 12 miles on the dual carriageway. It doesn’t really want to go more than 50mph, but I think that’s more to do with the lack of 5th gear as the engine steel feels like it has enough ‘pull’.
I’m not particularly ‘handy’ so whatever went in it would need to be reliable, I do have a good network of garages and contacts that would do the work though.
I’d probably be looking at something like an EP3 Type R, another MK2 Golf or classic Mini (if I can get one that’s not astronomical money), perhaps a Defender, so quite varied, but the running theme is ‘interesting’ in one way or another.