Thanks Ron, Sounds like Scotland is the place to take your TA! I've toured there in the past on a BSA 650 and more recently in my modded Spitfire; had a lovely time tho' I will admit to the Spitty coming home on a low loader... According to the other half Skye is the destination this year, six hundred miles from here.
Thanks again for the offer of advice etc. hopefully I will get to give the car a decent checkover this weekend. That is, of course, if circumstances stop conspiring against me and the "displaced polar vortex"* that could "paralyse the country"* doesn't get in the way of picking it up; hmmm...

*Courtesy of the Daily Express

Not far off a couple of thousand mile holiday then! Just make sure you go to Elgol. Fantastic drive and great view of the Cuilin range when you arrive. Making me jealous now.