The thing with the car is, it does look a nice example and i was VERY interested in it, and it was only 20 minutes away from me aswell but i still didnt bother looking at it.
BUT
I thought about it for a while, and for the money that he wants i dont think it is worth it, as when you come to sell it.....someone else is going to do ALL the same checks and come back with the same findings...which will make it hard to sell, as the bloke has found out.
I rang up about it 6 weeks ago...the guy told me that someone had left a deposit on it but never came back.....i bet he found out the same as me.