Mi16 conversion - very populat at the time. (edit - that was out of the 405 )

I'm half tempted to put gti6 engine/brakes in/on it, but equally sedecued by keeping it standard and honest. It doesn't really need to be quick after all. But then, 'surprisingly quick' is a nice position to occupy....hmmm

A question for another day though. I have a host of electrical gremlins to hunt down, and a horrendously loud exhaust to replace before I start worrying about the future plans

I thought there was a 309 like that? Or was it a 306.

Probably still a bargain compared to a 205, which now ought to be left original.

If you want to ruin it, hard-park it!

there was

309 GTi

Hard-park??

...in its original hedge-finding sense, not the JDM-ricer lookalikey 1.4 Civic school sense of scraping the exhaust on the way into MaccyDs.

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My first hot hatch was a 205 1.6CTi the cabrio version. It was an absolute blast, infinitely chuckable at everyday speeds with an even lower centre of gravity it was my favourite for over a decade until I finally got an S2. I bought a 306 afterwards for more space and always regretted saying goodbye to my rustbucket CTi.

I'm personally don't think sympathetically transplanting a slightly newer/more powerful Peugeot heart in constitutes ruining, but each to their own of course.

I think it only rarely matters

For example, when someone is making extravagant claims, such as how they 'embarrassed' a supercar

It's only right to point out that their Nissan Micra has a GTR lump under the bonnet

I don't think you can ruin a car

Some are prettier than others but they are just lumps of metal to me

Once people start talking about them as works of art I reach for a sick bag or shotgun

Trouble is, that old chestnut of value gets in the way and an original 205GTi will be dragged up with the market. Originality/patina's in vogue ATM.

OK, it's a 205, not Bitcoin, but it's a consideration to many.

You can do what you like to your own car, but go in fully aware.

Also, I do wonder if it's slightly missing the point of the car? It's no longer a 205 GTi 1.6 but something else entirely.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, but when people start paying 10-20 million for a pretty (old) bag of shite, I find I lose interest in them anyway.

Where one places oneself between to two extremes, is a matter of choice.