It's nothing like the mythical type r tommy,
There's plenty of clean type r's in this country, there just not for sale because lads know there good ones.
I could name 3 off the top of me head now in the club and there's more and then the ones not in the club,
As you said you have to hand it to the lad he done a great job on it but it would have been better if it was a restored v4 Sti, not a mix match of v5/6 bits and a set of bride seats thrown in to really finish it off