About 20 years ago there was a Skoda coupe for sale for a few hundred dollars in Hastings. It was a similar green to the "works" 4 door cars, had the same alloy wheels and a full roll cage. Don't know where it came from or here it went to.
Jim Gregory also turned up to a HBCC standing 1/4 mile sprint in a rally Lada Samara and recorded a time in the 14 second bracket! There was much scoffing and disbelief but he repeated the feat several times during the day. Eastern European cars were the butt of many jokes but some of them went very well.