65 the good bad and ugly

Wanted to get back and thank everyone for all the advice given and update as I mentioned I would. Unfortunately this fell through for a couple reasons and after getting jerked around for a couple months, I walked. Long story short, paid the holding fee , took the guy all through until mid September to get it what he deemed "road ready" and he wouldn't even tell me what was done on the car before I would go over for final purchase. Supposedly he had it at a local mechanic. Didn't fix that throttle linkage nor the kickdown properly but rather adjusted the carb in his words "it ran smoother". Emailed week ago last that he just made the executive decision to go get it painted then wanted more money for that, before I go pick it up and pay. I wanted to drive it again since the first experience wasn't great and his asking price was high in my opinion and things were starting not to feel right about this. In the end he now wants about 20k GBP which is about 22k USD. I'm out the holding fee but whatever.

Good news that I got while all this was ongoing my employer is transferring me back home to the US. So gonna get something when I get back home. Thanks again!