LOOK OUT FOR RUST

Major body restoration is terrifyingly expensive, and while corrosion isn’t as widespread as you’d expect, it’s worth checking around the wheelarches, front wings, sills and body panel seams just in case. Rusty front and rear valances on early models were cured on later models by a switch to composite materials. The bonnet, boot lid, and door skins are aluminium, but check for corrosion around locks, handles and badges; spacers were added later to counteract this, but it can still occur, so needs to be checked for diligently.