Fred, my friend Jason bought the car. Good news is that he got the engine oil pressure up. All it needed was the oil pump priming. Quite a bit of work to do on it, but he *might* get it done in time for Billing.
Chevetter - yep, degrees can get in your way..... when I was at college I had a viva and a chuvit at the same time. Spent more time on the cars than I did in lectures!
Still haven't got the brakes working yet. The weather didn't help this weekend - it was awful here. Thank God we didn't have that happen when everyone came over. It really would have been a wash-out.