Too good to be true

Forty-something Vincent Povey has been a petrol head since forever. He explained, “I grew up in Dartford, Kent and my first car was a Super Beetle, which I bought with a seized engine and went on to repair and restore.” Then, in around ’94, Vince moved to the Isle of Sheppey where he developed a taste for hot hatches. Working his way through a Peugeot 205 GTi, a CTi (cabriolet version) and then a 1.9 GTI (great little cars!), he moved onto a Cosworth Sierra and later a BMW cabriolet. “Then I ended up buying a Mk1 Golf GTi cabriolet – it had a Mohair roof and that fuel injected 1800cc motor was a screamer…

I really loved that car!” he said. The Golf stayed for three years, but as