Marc, monsoon do still make the soft tops, their about the £200 mark, you could try them, but i believe that they were talking about stopping the manufacture of soft tops, but someone with in the club was looking at buying the templates if they do call it a day, so you should still be able to get one, pinto 1600, not a bad block, except for eating cam belts, 2000 was better. mines stictly old school ,1300 crossflow , as i said ,before you remove the prop check what rear axle you have, if escort mk1, you have a pull rod system across the back axle for the handbrake, if mk2 separate cables if its a mk2, try a morris marina cable , their slightly longer