Thanks for the replies. Against my better judgment, I've called the seller and have agreed to take it for a test drive when he gets back from his honeymoon, in early June. The car seems to have fsh back to 1985, and has a 1 year old soft top. It has the original engine and box, and according to the seller is fine for days out - I live in London so it wouldn't be used daily anyway. Bearing in mind I ideally also need a car that can gobble up 1000m continental drives, I'm buggered if I know what I'm doing with an Alfa and (potentially) a Stag - if I get this I'll probably buy a banger to keep abroad and forget about driving from country to country
AlfaLincs - if I end up going forwards with this, I'll be getting somebody in to look at it first, but do you have any suggestions of things to ask / look at in addition to your really helpful post above? If you could message me or email me at
kopbadger@gmail.com I'd really appreciate it.