Hello all,
As Keshav mentioned, I sent the seller down a set of hood props and the fitting it goes in on the hood, he just hadn't installed. The reason the prop wasn't there, is it previously had one of those fancy aluminum strut braces which contained the prop magnetically, but in removing the excessive seam sealer and the strut brace, as both were not correct (one of the jobs I did get to) left one of the jobs I didn't get to - fitting a new hood prop
The buyer is very well known, extremely wealthy and probably owns one of the premier collections in America, he called me and I mentioned what needs doing to him or should I say what I didn't get to when I owned it. Crazily, he lives only 15mins from me
He told me he was willing to go much higher, because he had been looking for a long time and was tired at looking at suspect examples, at least this car was rust free, matching numbers, rare color (which he loved, as did I) and a known entity.
I have offered to help him with whatever he wants to do, he said, he may change a couple of things, but he wants to drive it, so may not do some things I mentioned and I say good luck to him, its his car to enjoy.
It will be great to see a CSL amongst some of the most incredible cars in existence and for fun I will get to see it again locally
Best
Pete