The concept

If you're a fan of cars, chances are you want to drive them as god intended. Unfortunately this is no longer possible due to issues such as road racing being both illegal and unsafe, speed cameras every three meters and potentially destroying your prized vehicle.

But wait, I hear you say what about track days? Yes they may solve the first two problems but the third is magnified by a factor of a million. Although you may be a 'driving god', others may not be so gifted and so the chance that they may stuff their car into both you and the armco is fairly likely. Y

You also need to consider the moment where your talent runs, when this occurs (and it will, it's just a matter of when), do you really want to be in an expensive car? I certainly don't, I also don't want to stuff up my one mode of transport, but at the same time I can't afford a track day special or a Caterham.

I've always been a fan of the underdog, the terrier nipping at your heels, the guy with his best days behind him but puts it back together for one last blaze of glory. What that mess of clichés is trying to get across is, what if we used a car that used to be good but time has taken its toll? It may have 18 owners, have less floor plan than Fred Flintstones car and be leaking more oil than the Exxon Valdez.

But it will be cheap and if the worst happens, it will be true throwaway motoring.