Update - the car left today to be stripped and start its journey towards something else. I had it fully registered for two weekends which was heaps of fun, I did 425 miles all up (680km) and took 10 family and friends for rides in it. All agreed it is a great fun car but all had a headache within half an hour from the petrol smells and noise and are looking forward to another ride when it is hopefully less smelly and a lot quieter. No idea how the previous owner raced it without getting a headache but looking at the receipts they only did 2,600 miles in the last 7 years so it was not used very often.

I had fun going on nice country roads near here but glad to see it go as I had a bad headache after each weekend from it. Plus looking forward to seeing the car progress along its journey. I expect the next time I see the car it will be a stripped out shell.