Sixty quid in HPI checks could have saved you two full days of your time and 60-100 quid in petrol to go looking at fucking dog rough cars.
Nothing worse than getting to the far end of the country to look at a ''mint'' car that because of all the respray work was 3 different shades of silver-it happened me a couple of years ago I could have killed the cunt , five hrs driving for fuck all
Good luck and keep going anyway-I'm lookin forward to this car and resto