Thanks for the replies, very helpful Bourkey I've just read his old email again, and he mentions 'You've give me no papers to prove its on a new engine or the mileage, and you've give me no service book' Now thats certainly something he should have checked when he bought the car, i was going to reply saying give me your address and i'll get the engine papers in the post, but after that phonecall yesterday, i just ripped them and put em in the bin ;) He said it needs a second gear syncro, the brakes are making a noise and the under body covers we're hanging loose. If the under body covers weren't on properly, it would have failed MOT. And about the gear and brakes, pah, perfect when we had it.