It was a terribly low price, but even for a 260 being a Cat C puts your Average Joe off as they hear such horror stories on watchdog and rogue traders etc etc.

As my boss says, a Cat C car is likely to be more structurally sound than another car of the same age, as it's had repair work done to it, whereas a car that's not been touched for X years is likely to be rusty as heck and have something likely to let go at any moment.