Sorry for late reply @jonfoc been a bit busy with house stuff and keep forgetting I've posted here Thanks for that, nice to know who the guru's are

I've found a couple of places online that seem to have the parts fiche's and also a spot that can supply the side/tail graphics for about £60 that my mate is happy to go with. Bit of a shock for the bonnet stay rod at £45 ! And I'm used to Jap bike spares prices - lol. At least with this project, you expect to have to pay a bit of a premium coz the car's 40 years old. Thankfully I ain't having to shell out the £.

Not in at work today so gonna have a good browse for a few more of the parts he is missing. Thankfully, a lot of them are more the basic MKIII Escort bits and not specific to the RST so they don't seem to be too difficult to find. One thing I will ask (because I remember seeing summat about it on another forum in passing) is about the wheel centre caps. Did the RST have the "RS" logo on them, or where they just blank, solid colour caps ?

Cheers.