Six months later... :lol:
I went to wake the 205 up, and I was happy to see no-one had messed with it. I swapped on the summer tires, will probably just throw the winter set away as it's completely useless.
I jump started the Peugeot with a little help from the Polo, and while it started right up, the battery didn't hold any charge due to having been empty for so long. I picked another one up for cheap, and a jet wash tidied up the forgotten appearance a lot, though it needs a buffing.
I also went and got some transfer plates for it so I could drive it around and get some fuel for it, and it seems like a fresh half tank of 98 already helped it run a lot better, with none of the stumbling it did earlier. The idle is now at 1000-1500, though, and doesn't come down below that.
But man, does it go great. It feels it has so much more life force in it than the Polo, it's nervous, darty, jumpy, it wants to GO GO GO! Everything around it is somehow holding it back, and it wants to spend its life soaring to 6000rpm at every possible chance. I do need to get it through MOT, I do need to hold onto it. It is fantastic.