Well having still not manager to get her started last night and being the short tempered bugger that I am I ended up giving up and hitting the Autotrader. 2 nice looking golfs later, both sold so decide ANY MAKE/ANY MODEL <£500 and end up buying a Rover 216 Gti.
Guess now I have a runabout I can finally take the beast off of the road and do all the things that I've been planning on doing for the last 2 years! (money permitting).
Don't think that I did too bad with the Rover tbh, £300, 1991, FSH, 2 owners, leather interior, full electrics and £550 TPFT insurance.
Ian