I had a 2.8 Special for 3 weeks. Bought it for a club autotest on Boxing day where it was tremendous fun, never needed the windscreen wipers despite the mud and slush but did have to keep the door windows wound down to see where we was going
Sadly it was a short affair - let the missus use it as a hack to get to the station (just a mile away) but she wasn't as keen on drifting as me and after one big moment that was enough. Shame!