do road legal check before buying (ie get a accurate trail of who owns and what it’s legal status is), be aware that only some ins ‘write off’ levels can be made re-legal (C/D)
I’d also look on ebay, local papers, etc
reregistered – well I had to register an import and DVLA refused until I got from the ‘trade’ an age certificate – ie they wouldn’t believe me but a bit of paper signed by a bike dealer was obviously truthful ….
I’d probably do a spares search (ie check several breakers have parts of bike about to buy and at what cost) before buying as well coz if you have to buy much at list price it’ll be cripplingly expensive. Also check availability of any critical parts as if you have a 99.5% runner it ain’t that good.
(but I did get an old dt175 to use for motoball for 50 and about 4 fisinhing boxes of spares for a tenner ….)