Hello & welcome, Stu

Your story about being a complete car nut and the Stratos is a familiar one to many here, I suspect (though I don't know for certain, not having met or interacted with many forum members). You sound like you have one key quality, though: patience. But if that does run out - and you happen to be fortunate enough to have the cash laying around - they do come up for sale, albeit occasionally. This tends to happen in waves, it seems. with 3 or 4 coming to market all at the same time. But anyway, congratulations on taking the plunge. Maybe there'll be someone popping up on here who could take you out in theirs in the meantime, you never know. There appears to be a fair few more owners in "the Norf", rather than "the Sarf" but I could be mistaken..

Cheers,
Hedge