80's French car on eBay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ULTRA-RARE-205-TURBO-16-/130416965231?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item1e5d74f66f

Gee, reserve not met at $40k, there's a shock.

Holy E36 M3 that is awesome, maybe not 40k awesome though.

They go for FAR more than that, if you ever find one for sale. (I only found one, and it was 4x as much, which seems low to me)

Add to that this is one of very few (possibly the only one) in the US, and its extraordinarily low mileage..

If I had the money to spend on something like that I would rather it go to a Renault5 Turbo. Or maybe not, I would much rather have that Peugeot than any new car I could buy for less than 80k dollars.

But, where would I find spares for it?

You never drive it. You just rub it with a diaper.

That is awesome. Quite a bit rarer than a Renault 5 Turbo, but probably not much faster.

Given money no object, a Ford RS200 would be my Group-B homologation-special pick.

Mine would be a Lancia Delta S4

That is some kind of cool, even though I don't really care for French cars.

I'm not real up on Peugeots. How is the 205 different from the 405 featured in 'Climb Dance'?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6604540639943123451#

EDIT: Found this on the same page with the PP video. Listen carefully to the co driver at :28.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6604540639943123451#docid=3137039909895868592

The "405 T16" was a long wheelbase version of the 205 T16 rally car.

When Peugeot stopped rallying in Group B, they added a chunk of wheelbase to the middle of the chassis, called it a 405, and went desert racing.

I forget where I saw it, but I saw a (subtitled) video regarding the rally effort, and Jean Todt (heard of him?) explained that the chassis was modular, they could make the wheelbase anything they wanted for whatever they planned to do.

I've never really wanted a Peugeot before, until now.

That's a very cool car. Fortunately, I don't have 40 thou in play money.