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Well we all learn from our mistakes, that is the main thing.
As Alex said, after declaring mods such as a 2.0 engine, you may aswell just have the 172 in the first place really. It's not going to look to good from an insurers point of view, to get banned for speeding, then put a big engine...
Exactly, surely you'd be better keeping the 1.6 instead of going down to a 1.2. Vtrs are great fun little cars, personally I think you'd be better to wait til you can afford a 172, as they're good cars because of the engine, not for the looks!
Don't go on yor mums insurance, iirc it's illegal, or fraud. They will know it's not her car. You won't build up your own no claims that way eithjer, so your insurance will never go down!
As for fave 172 colour - flame red! :)
But think about how much the insurance would be after declaring all those mods, and paying out for the parts on top of the car. You can buy a 172 for that money probably if you give it a couple of years. Plenty of 19-20 year ols on here with 1*2s, so insurance must be do-able!
Personally I'd keep the vtr and save for a real 172, it's going to cost alot to make it look like one, so you may aswell sust save that money instead. But there are some nice replicas that I've seen on here.