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This is always my dilemma when buying anything, buy older/higher mileage/known to be not in the best nick, but know that when you put x and y right (and then find z, and fix that too) you've gone and got the exact condition car you want for almost as much as that 'perfect, well kept, £££' example was that you thought you should have bought.
Looks good to me though.
Have you got a list of mod's in mind yet or enjoy it as factory as poss and make it into a very good one?
BrickMan
Cabs go for less than Coupe's - but none of the stuff on my list is model specific, so the bill would (potentially) be the same for a coupe.
The car I bought was advertised at £12,500, I had the PPI done, it revealed £4,000 of work, we negotiated and the seller met me at £9,500.
Unfortunately as the car has come apart at the garage more has been identified, so I'm now looking at £5,500.
Not to make light of this - it's serious money, and this is going to hurt a little, but my overall budget was £15,000 and I'm within touching distance of that with, as Danstuff said, a car that I know to be fully sorted, rather than the position I might have been in having spent £15,800 on a coupe that then needed the exact same work.
Overall I'm ok with this, just the thought of picking the car up and driving home in it has me smiling. So on that score, so far so good.