Cheers for the positive feedback guys, Haven't had much of a chance to get on here recently but heres a quick update so far...

I spoke with the bodyshop and the long and short of it is the car appears to be in better nick than I expected, It will need two front doors replaced, two repairs to the front wings where the bumber mounts (wings are original and in good solid condition apart from these areas), drivers side rear wheel arch needs replacing then will be painted both sides including the boot floor and acouple of other small areas to tidy up but all in all not too bad, his words not mine!

I should also clarify that I wont be prepping the bodywork itself more the labour side of things i.e removing the bumpers and interior prior to it going into the bodyshop which is now looking like late February as that is the soonest they can accomodate it!

I now have a small shopping list of parts to find and I think I've managed to track down the majority of the stuff already but i'm curently stuck offshore at work so there wont be much progress now for a couple of weeks. I have taken some pics of the 'bad bits' and will upload them when i get a chance so you can see a visual!

Cheers for now