See all Motoring NewsGot an old car that's crushingly mediocre? In need of funds, quite desperately? Then take a leaf out of Hubert Zajaczkowski's book... and go and park it at the bottom of a bog for a few months, before hooking yourself a megabucks sucker who will buy it on the internet.
Because Hubert, 21, ended up selling his 177,000-kilometre, flood-damaged SEAT Toledo 1.8 petrol on eBay for £101,100, which is around €122,547 - a tidy return on his €727 (£600) investment.
There's a bit of a catch, though, as Hubert's car had become somewhat infamous, thanks to the recent flooding that occurred in the UK.
He'd had to abandon the 15-year-old silver saloon - an early Mk II Toledo, from the era when parent company Volkswagen was still trying to improve the Spanish breed - on a road near the village of Muchelney, Somerset, on Christmas Eve 2013, due to the alarming rise in local water levels.
And there it remained, submerged, for week after week as most of the county became a small inland sea for the best part of January.
It featured across all manner of visual media as a sort of soggy symbol of the disaster that had befallen the people of the area and it even attracted comments from British Prime Minster David Cameron and The Prince of Wales.
Once the waters had subsided, Hubert had the bright idea of selling this grotty wreck on eBay, albeit with the noble intention of donating all the proceeds to a charity that was helping victims of the floods in the aftermath.
By March 16th, with the online auction ending three days later, his top bid was around €188. Clearly, someone felt sympathy for his plight, and a late bidding war saw the price rocket to the unbelievable final figure.
However, at the time of writing, there's no confirmation as to whether Hubert has actually received the money... or whether he wouldn't be tempted to use a bit of the cash to go out, buy an old Orion or similar and drop it into his nearest peat bog for a couple of days.
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