well you'd of thought it would be more but i added my freind to my escort insurance and she's on 4 months older than me and that knocked about £20 off of the cost, it must just be beacuse they are considered safer drivers as if i'm honest (oh i'm going to die for saying this) i feel safer being a passanger with a lady driver they dont tend to do stupid things
i feel for, can only imagine what your going through, and as for the cars there must be someone on here that can help for an afternoon to get on running, i would but i'm just to far away
if you can afford it without worrys go with what you really want, if i was in yor situation i'd buy parajohn's cossy get it all fitted and running then as time and money allowed get all the parts to rebuid it into a N/A cossy