Greetings from sunny Ireland!
First things first - Meet Fred!
Lots of spiders under the bonnet, but luckily Fred's escaped the rat problems that Wilma has! all looks original to me under here, and apart from under the drivers side washer bottle there's no rot either.
Except for the tatty seats, and the moss growing in the passenger footwell

the interior is pretty good. I noticed that the demister vents for the doors are blocked off (just above the side vents), I've seen this before, but don't know why they did it.
I'm hoping that the rear seats will scrub up, but if not covers will do the job for now.
View from the tailgate (which needs new struts!) Although the rear shelf has been cut for speakers, they're period items and with my preference for sound systems in my cars I will probably keep it rather than try to find an uncut shelf. Poking around in the back has revealed the rear corners of the boot floor are crunchy, and I have my suspiscions about the exhaust hangar, although the tops of the arches seem ok.
Pillars need a bit of work, but I've seen much worse!
Windscreen is shot, and the passenger pillar will need work at both ends before a replacement is fitted. The screen rubber is the later pattern with the curved top corners, so I'm guessing that it's already been replaced at least once.
The trip home was uneventful, if wet, although getting Fred unloaded was interesting, as he'd got well and truly wedged - just because a car was winched onto a truck, it doesn't mean it'll come off again, although with a bit of rocking, jacking and tyre inflation, he was eventually parked up next to Mitch.
In other news, I managed do drive Timex over a traffic island in Pembroke Dock, the only casualty being a tyre (now replaced), plus the sump collected some new dents. And tomorrow and driving halfway across Ireland to meet up with Kieran and have a look at his collection of BX's - it'll also give me a good idea of the road conditions in the part of Ireland I'm hoping to take next years Challenge through.