Davem45r

Been advertised for more than 3 years - surprising there haven't been any bites at £8500. I bought a similar car (except it was a 1999 car) in the uk for £3450 - go figure lol.

You should be able to find someone to media blast and powder coat for less than about £180 for a set of 4 (I know of someone who gets it done locally for £160 / 4 wheels). No idea about the cost of diamond cutting - probably depends on how much you have done, but I had the very outer edge of the rim done on and it cost me about a tenner a wheel.

If it looks like for life coolant (i.e. clear and red) - NO If it looks like minestrone soup (i.e. brown with vegetables in it) - YES

Make sure it's insured for what it's worth. Drive it. Try not to worry

Put it on unpainted and see if you like it / can put up with it. If not, remove and apply 040

Baggies easiest, suitable sized nut and bolt with a couple of fibre washers shouldn't be a problem either. It's a good opportunity to change the fluid if that hasn't been done recently, and it's not much more effort than a quick bleed through (which you're going to need to do anyway) if you have an assistant. Think that banjo bolts are m10.

10 extra long wheel studs (BBK means that the wheel nuts are only on about 6 threads)