Respray always costs the money, but if you strip down a lot of it yourself can keep the costs down. Mine set me back £1200 but they could have gone done to about £800. Cant say really looked at the electrics, the upper steering column and ignition was changed over. Put up a wanted list on here if needing parts, plenty of people have stock piles of car parts
you just fall in love with these cars and with not many coming up for sale lately, apart from some real dogs or expensive ones on eBay which don't appear to always sell, the ones below £3k do seem to sell quickly.