Thanks all. I shall look forward to meeting some of you on the 15th - and probably fishing for the benefit of your expert knowledge.
In answer to Richot1989's enquiry she's a sport model which I bought her unseen from Tom at 911V. I don't think there are many people I would trust to buy a car without having looked at it in the flesh, let alone drive, but Tom is one of them. I hope one of you on the Wales run doesn't take one look at it and find something unpleasant. Actually thinking about it perhaps I do - I have three months warranty.
Apparently it used to belong to Nick Fulljames at Redtek. He completely rebuilt the engine (I have a lovely CD of photos of the process which gives me great pleasure and causes Mrs Lungauer to rolls her eyes), had the car re-sprayed and then sold it to Dr Mark Porter of BBC fame. I believe it was Dr Porter who had a new engine cover fitted sans whale-tail before taking delivery. This was back in 2013 and it's done 3,000 miles on the rebuilt engine. Hopefully should last my tenure of ownership at least.
I've spent the afternoon tootling around Presteigne, Pen-y-bont, Kington and whatnot and my feelings about the car are changing. Originally I was looking for a tatty 3.2 that I could lightly restomod to something 'racy', but this one is rather nice as it is and the softer suspension set up (compared to my previous cars) and slightly lazy power delivery is actually rather pleasing. A suspension health check by CG might be worth doing. Maybe the turbo tie rod upgrade. Maybe the fuse blade upgrade, a Wayne Schofield chip? Don't know but anyway I find myself not in a rush to change anything.
