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Thank you both so much that seems to bear out what we've been told.
No I bought it as a non runner. Allegedly it was driven into the guy's garage left for about 2 years and then wouldn't start when he wanted to move it but how true that is I honestly don't know. It's a genuine 45,000 miles on it though with paperwork to back it up so I'm hoping it's the truth. Aside from it not starting it's immaculate, very solid underneath, and free rolling which is more than my brother's coupe version was ( he had to do the horror back brakes on his by dropping the rear end), so hoping that's not necessary but I have to get it started first before we can really judge much else. I'll mention the 180 deg out thing to him.
I've shown your video to my brother whose outside swearing at it now. I'll let you know how we get on. Thank you both so much:)