Rebellious Attitude (2)

I liked the idea of what I found on the web, and started negotiations to buy a saloon that was offered for sale on the classic car newsgroups. Sadly, it was in Castle Douglas, and would have cost twice as much to transport down to Dorset as the owner was asking for the car. With the end of the milk job I forgot about the Rebel until April 2003, when my customer mentioned that his parents were inviting him to cull his collection of cars - one Scimitar GTE, one Scimitar Coupe, and two Rebel estates. He had decided to part with one of the Rebels, and I decided to stick a trailer behind my tired old GTE and trundle up the M3 to collect it.

It had to hang around outside my unit for several weeks before I could get around to introducing it to my MoT tester. The list of faults to be dealt with started with the complete lack of an exhaust system, continued at the back with no right-hand stop/.tail lights or indicator, dived inside the car to the dismounted passenger seat and missing interior mirror, and finally surfaced under the bonnet with a missing heater unit, found in pieces in a cardboard box in the back of the car.