Remember TG last series or the one before that, they were set a challenge. £1000 each - buy a supercar, do this, that and the other then sell it and see if you make your money back. Clarkson won as he sold his car as component parts rather than the whole thing.

Would this work for other cars?

Say i went to a back street garage and bought a Ford Escort for £450.00 - a real knacker of a car, took it somewhere where i could strip it to its component bits (like in the Short Circuit movie), and sell the bits.

Would i get my money back or better still, make a profit?

Or would cars with owners clubs be better, like the old mini?