So my wife keeps telling me. I have had the car 6 years now, 145k on the clock, the value to anyone else is between minimal and fookall so it is slowly being stripped with a view to taking it off the road for use as a track toy as and when.

why not mate, why not, may aswell have some fun rather get a ridiculously low trade in

Still no getting away from that heavy derv engine though..

1.2 htp or 1.4mpi - the engine the 1.4mpi is based on has a long history with Skoda in rally with many trophies etc etc, aluminium alloy so nice and light. The Fabia itself is a big heavy lump of a car though.

shame the mpi is so painfully slow

Did Dave (Shifty) not go even further than Johnnys car ?

Two races seats too

Although Mr S Roll has it fully built back up now.

Yes, I took everything out that was of no use to me, seats, carpets, all the plastic trim.... It was a lot of stuff that came out. As said the rear seats are heavy, the fronts are even heavier, so I swapped those for Sparco race chairs that were 7kgs each on the subframes.

All the seatbelts came out, and I had harnesses in the front only. I don't know precisely how much but id guess I took out around 150kgs in total. It made a difference.